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After the Flood
by Kassandra Montag
This was a hard book to read. The despair of the pregnant main character as she watched her husband abandon her and take their daughter. Myra searches for her daughter for seven years, which is when the story begins. Her other daughter comes second to her search for the first daughter. Water has overtaken and drowned the world except for the mountaintops of the Rockies and few islands of land. It is a dark, violent world where women are only good for breeding, there are no laws, no government, no civilization once known.
While I found the book depressing most of the time, there were some parts of it that weren’t. It wasn’t badly written and the location – the seas of endless water – well described. The characters were not well drawn at all, even Myra.
There were just too many coincidences, too many unbelievable events – as when Myra, clearly in her final trimester, jumps out of a window and lands heavily but is able to swim after the boat carrying her husband and daughter away from her, but doesn’t tell us how she finds safety after she abandons the chase is just too much of an eye-rolling scene.
As I was reading this book, I had the nagging feeling I’d read this book before – a long while ago. There were just too many similarities not to think that. The publisher though calls it a “… wholly original saga” and the book “signals the arrival of [a] extraordinary new talent.”
My thanks to William Morrow Publishing and Edelweiss for an eARC.
While I found the book depressing most of the time, there were some parts of it that weren’t. It wasn’t badly written and the location – the seas of endless water – well described. The characters were not well drawn at all, even Myra.
There were just too many coincidences, too many unbelievable events – as when Myra, clearly in her final trimester, jumps out of a window and lands heavily but is able to swim after the boat carrying her husband and daughter away from her, but doesn’t tell us how she finds safety after she abandons the chase is just too much of an eye-rolling scene.
As I was reading this book, I had the nagging feeling I’d read this book before – a long while ago. There were just too many similarities not to think that. The publisher though calls it a “… wholly original saga” and the book “signals the arrival of [a] extraordinary new talent.”
My thanks to William Morrow Publishing and Edelweiss for an eARC.