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qwertybirdy 's review for:
After the Flood
by Kassandra Montag
After the flood, page 185, paragraph 4 - “I stopped and starred” should be “I stopped and stared”
After The Flood is a beautiful story about love and loss in a time where the idea of hope seems foreign, but through Myra’s sheer will, the reader never loses hope.
This has without a doubt become one of my three deserted island reads. I am already planning a book tree to make sure all of my friends and family read this story so I can immediately start talking about it.
Truly fantastic.
SPOILERS BELOW
The only thing I found myself wanting more of was a deeper storyline with Daniel and his brother Jackson. The end of Jackson’s life, and the end of the Lily Black’s ship was far too short and did not have nearly enough detail to satiate me. However, I truly was grateful that the villains (Jackson and his crew) were not any less mortal than the good guys. It’s always distressing reading about a villain (or a hero) that took 25 shots and 5 knives to the chest, and either still lived or finally died. Human beings are much more fragile than that.
Another note of appreciation for Pearl’s lost finger. That was really well written to help us understand how a life without medicine can truly mean a scratch can be the end of your life. This is not something people ever think about, even in novels regarding dystopian reality.
After The Flood is a beautiful story about love and loss in a time where the idea of hope seems foreign, but through Myra’s sheer will, the reader never loses hope.
This has without a doubt become one of my three deserted island reads. I am already planning a book tree to make sure all of my friends and family read this story so I can immediately start talking about it.
Truly fantastic.
SPOILERS BELOW
The only thing I found myself wanting more of was a deeper storyline with Daniel and his brother Jackson. The end of Jackson’s life, and the end of the Lily Black’s ship was far too short and did not have nearly enough detail to satiate me. However, I truly was grateful that the villains (Jackson and his crew) were not any less mortal than the good guys. It’s always distressing reading about a villain (or a hero) that took 25 shots and 5 knives to the chest, and either still lived or finally died. Human beings are much more fragile than that.
Another note of appreciation for Pearl’s lost finger. That was really well written to help us understand how a life without medicine can truly mean a scratch can be the end of your life. This is not something people ever think about, even in novels regarding dystopian reality.