jdgcreates 's review for:

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

3.0

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I would give this 3.5 stars simply because it is a crazily readable account of a possible, and unexpected, version of the apocalypse. I had some issues with the detached voice of our narrator which I think was mostly due to the fact that the woman is already grown and reflecting on her adolescent experience of the decay of the planet and of human relationships. Maybe this retrospective telling is necessary to build the suspense of the progression of the situation but I still think it would've been a stronger novel told in the girl's voice, not the woman's, and told in greater detail. It has the feel of a long short-story, if that makes sense. Still, it's a tragically good idea at the root of it.