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A review by januaryreads
Mad World by Laura Lascarso
2.0
This was not very good. I love zombie stories, but this can hardly be called one. There was hardly any tension and definitely not because the world-as-we-know-it ended. Any suspense or tension that did occur was VERY quickly resolved. If you want something really low stakes, low angst, low anything, this book is it. At least it’s fast-paced, so there’s not much to finishing it.
It read much more YA than NA, with one pretty unrealistically cutesy/innocent (childish) MC, while the other was cartoonishly “tough”. Unfortunately, the childish, naïve (kid-like!!) MC was also very overly sexual and sexualised, which was awkward and uncomfortable to read. As some of the other reviews have said, this seems like a sanitised Fallocaust, badly executed. The side characters might as well have been left out of this completely, for all the impact they made?
I don’t think there’s anyone I’d recommend this to, really
It read much more YA than NA, with one pretty unrealistically cutesy/innocent (childish) MC, while the other was cartoonishly “tough”. Unfortunately, the childish, naïve (kid-like!!) MC was also very overly sexual and sexualised, which was awkward and uncomfortable to read. As some of the other reviews have said, this seems like a sanitised Fallocaust, badly executed. The side characters might as well have been left out of this completely, for all the impact they made?
I don’t think there’s anyone I’d recommend this to, really