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The New Wilderness
by Diane Cook
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spoilers !!!!!!!!!!!!
This was no doubt the worst ever book I have read folowed closely by The things we do to our friends.
My goodness.
If you liked Cormac Mc Carthy's The Road or the film Children of Men , you will hate this.
The book is over 400 pages and is not convincing. The plot in itself was enticing, as I do love to read how humans fail to adapt to an ecocide. But that's about it. The characters (too many which serve zero purpose to the book) are mere names on a page. I felt emotionally tied to absolutely noone which is problematic since the whole point is to root for their survival.
So many loopholes.. why, if you are one of the few to be accepted, would you come unprepared (flipflops? for real?), why does the mother (I read this a while ago) start a liaison with the alpha male and shun her husband, we never understand the strategy of this? The whole microtrash process is absurd. You can leave but come back? What's the point? It's exactly how I suspect the Hunger games is. A bunch of childish games where the rules are constantly and cruelly changed for absolutely no reason. There isn't any information on the politics, what lead up to this project, the funding, how are these people selected. Also we never find out how bad life in the "city" has gotten. Oh the characters will allude to how "bad" it's gotten but the author refuses, or for lack of knowing, to even indulge in painting the picture for us. That's what I like about Hanya Yanagihara's To paradise, we actually in the third part of the book got to see what the NYC of the future had become.
To understand the struggle of the wilderness it would have been important to understand thoroughly what they had and were escaping.
Other things pissed me off but this book is so far behing me, I've moved on.
This was no doubt the worst ever book I have read folowed closely by The things we do to our friends.
My goodness.
If you liked Cormac Mc Carthy's The Road or the film Children of Men , you will hate this.
The book is over 400 pages and is not convincing. The plot in itself was enticing, as I do love to read how humans fail to adapt to an ecocide. But that's about it. The characters (too many which serve zero purpose to the book) are mere names on a page. I felt emotionally tied to absolutely noone which is problematic since the whole point is to root for their survival.
So many loopholes.. why, if you are one of the few to be accepted, would you come unprepared (flipflops? for real?), why does the mother (I read this a while ago) start a liaison with the alpha male and shun her husband, we never understand the strategy of this? The whole microtrash process is absurd. You can leave but come back? What's the point? It's exactly how I suspect the Hunger games is. A bunch of childish games where the rules are constantly and cruelly changed for absolutely no reason. There isn't any information on the politics, what lead up to this project, the funding, how are these people selected. Also we never find out how bad life in the "city" has gotten. Oh the characters will allude to how "bad" it's gotten but the author refuses, or for lack of knowing, to even indulge in painting the picture for us. That's what I like about Hanya Yanagihara's To paradise, we actually in the third part of the book got to see what the NYC of the future had become.
To understand the struggle of the wilderness it would have been important to understand thoroughly what they had and were escaping.
Other things pissed me off but this book is so far behing me, I've moved on.