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A review by jkkb332
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
4.0
I love a book that challenges your assumptions by completely blindsiding you towards the end, and I especially love when you can look back and see how very wrong you were. This book does the first very well, and a decent job at the second.
This is very dystopian. Even though it was written in 2010 it feels extremely timely in today's post-pandemic world (using the term post-pandemic loosely here, in the sense that the initial panic and society-changing part of it has passed). This is why I don't read dystopian fiction anymore, it hits too close to home. Frankly I only picked this up because it was a quick read and I'm trying to catch up on my reading challenge (and because it's been on my to-read list for ~10 years, yeesh). But, the twist is worth the reminder that the world is going to shit, so you should read it anyway.
This is very dystopian. Even though it was written in 2010 it feels extremely timely in today's post-pandemic world (using the term post-pandemic loosely here, in the sense that the initial panic and society-changing part of it has passed). This is why I don't read dystopian fiction anymore, it hits too close to home. Frankly I only picked this up because it was a quick read and I'm trying to catch up on my reading challenge (and because it's been on my to-read list for ~10 years, yeesh). But, the twist is worth the reminder that the world is going to shit, so you should read it anyway.