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A review by katies_bookish_adventure
If We Survive This by Racquel Marie
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group for a complimentary early release copy of If We Survive This by Racquel Marie.
I have mixed feelings about If We Survive This. I liked the sibling relationship between Flora and Cain. The sibling relationship between these two are strained/tense for a number of reasons but you can still tell very clearly that the two of them care for one another. I like that we get perspectives from before and during apocalypse, I kind of liked the before moments of the book as it really made me like the family aspects better. The before chapters helped give me an idea of what the characters were like before things had changed in their world, it also helped me feel a bit more connected to the family and feel for them.
I wasn’t fond of the found family aspects in this book. I didn’t really like any other characters besides the main characters family. A good percentage of the book is just the characters moving around and surviving, nothing really sticks out about any of those moments. The action of the book doesn’t even hit until about the sixty percent mark. Then things become a bit chaotic and rushed, I kind of liked the direction the book was going in towards the end as it made sense to me but then things had changed leaving me with a rather opened ended ending that I wasn’t fond of. The romance in here between the Flora and her love interest didn’t even come in until towards the end, I didn’t like nor feel for this romance and even though the characters knew each other for a long while it still felt kind of instant lovey and out of nowhere. I did like the brief mentions of Cain’s relationship, I think the two of them make a cute pair together.
I have mixed feelings about If We Survive This. I liked the sibling relationship between Flora and Cain. The sibling relationship between these two are strained/tense for a number of reasons but you can still tell very clearly that the two of them care for one another. I like that we get perspectives from before and during apocalypse, I kind of liked the before moments of the book as it really made me like the family aspects better. The before chapters helped give me an idea of what the characters were like before things had changed in their world, it also helped me feel a bit more connected to the family and feel for them.
I wasn’t fond of the found family aspects in this book. I didn’t really like any other characters besides the main characters family. A good percentage of the book is just the characters moving around and surviving, nothing really sticks out about any of those moments. The action of the book doesn’t even hit until about the sixty percent mark. Then things become a bit chaotic and rushed, I kind of liked the direction the book was going in towards the end as it made sense to me but then things had changed leaving me with a rather opened ended ending that I wasn’t fond of. The romance in here between the Flora and her love interest didn’t even come in until towards the end, I didn’t like nor feel for this romance and even though the characters knew each other for a long while it still felt kind of instant lovey and out of nowhere. I did like the brief mentions of Cain’s relationship, I think the two of them make a cute pair together.