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A review by mariahistryingtoread
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
3.0
I almost didn't write a review for this book. I high key honestly don't want to but I wanted to spit a few lines out in case it's helpful to someone else.
This is really important going in and absolutely no one outside of some of the reviews here on Goodreads mentions it. It's not even interwoven into the synopsis: this is not a straight thriller, it is post apocalyptic fiction .
I very much feel this book has been completely miscategorized and/or misrepresented. Something got lost in translation somewhere because I had no idea. And I definitely would not have read this book heck I wouldn't even have picked it back when I still had Book of the Month if I had known.
I have no words for how anxious this book made me. And I absolutely could not quit because once I was in my anxiety spiral I was desperate to finish with a glimmer of hope or something, anything to make me feel better about how dire the circumstances were. There is something there but it almost feels delusional for the character involved to believe like they do.
If you have bad anxiety like I do and easily spin out into what ifs and your thought patterns endlessly cycle and branch off into more and more paths as you try to account for every possible avenue I'd recommend passing on this. Or at the very least be very careful going in. I found the implication of what was going on, the little asides and tiny morsels of info given to be an immensely triggering way of writing.
I wish it had been much more clear that this was not a simple mystery or thriller. So I'm giving anybody out there the heads up I didn't have.
This is really important going in and absolutely no one outside of some of the reviews here on Goodreads mentions it. It's not even interwoven into the synopsis: this is not a straight thriller, it is post apocalyptic fiction .
I very much feel this book has been completely miscategorized and/or misrepresented. Something got lost in translation somewhere because I had no idea. And I definitely would not have read this book heck I wouldn't even have picked it back when I still had Book of the Month if I had known.
I have no words for how anxious this book made me. And I absolutely could not quit because once I was in my anxiety spiral I was desperate to finish with a glimmer of hope or something, anything to make me feel better about how dire the circumstances were. There is something there but it almost feels delusional for the character involved to believe like they do.
If you have bad anxiety like I do and easily spin out into what ifs and your thought patterns endlessly cycle and branch off into more and more paths as you try to account for every possible avenue I'd recommend passing on this. Or at the very least be very careful going in. I found the implication of what was going on, the little asides and tiny morsels of info given to be an immensely triggering way of writing.
I wish it had been much more clear that this was not a simple mystery or thriller. So I'm giving anybody out there the heads up I didn't have.