stormlightreader 's review for:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

4.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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The big event is simply an 'extinction event' and now the boy and his father are trying to avoid a bunch of cannibals. The ending is a bit of an anti-climax but the fact that the book is a post-apocalyptic, that's not surprising since the 'big event' has already happened. There is no big action and the plot never really takes off but if you are aware you're reading a dystopian story then you shouldn't have unreasonably high expectations and therefore shouldn't be too disappointed. I appreciated that we never found out exactly what happened to the world, but I also didn't feel connected to any character. McCarthy's writing style took some getting used to but once you get into the swing of it, it's bearable but I could not get used to reading books with no punctuation.