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The Electric Kingdom
by David Arnold
So this post apocalyptic novel...sort of isn't.
I mean, it is. It's set in a world devastated by a mutated bee carrying a deadly fly. Most of the characters are children who have grown up in this world and don't know anything else. They go scavenging and grow a lot of their own food, and at various points we meet a gang of raiders and a truly unpleasant Bible basher. So far, so post apocalyptic.
But there's also some sci fi going on in there, and I didn't feel like the storylines meshed very well. Either story on its own would have been really cool, but for me, they didn't make sense put together. It felt a bit like Patrick Ness' Release, which had a great story about a teenager on the day everything in his life changed, and also something weird about a ghost and a faun that never really crossed over with the main story or made sense.
It's a shame, because individually the two stories - children grown up in a post apocalyptic world who are now moving out from the protection of adults, and the strange sci fi ness of the Deliverer - are entertaining. But by grafting them together, everything got confused, and plenty of storylines didn't get finished up properly. What was the illness killing the adults? Where did (redacted character) vanish to? Why did Kit seem to be remembering past lives when the person living them over and over was someone else entirely?
Not awful; definitely worth a look. But not one of the better ones, either.
I mean, it is. It's set in a world devastated by a mutated bee carrying a deadly fly. Most of the characters are children who have grown up in this world and don't know anything else. They go scavenging and grow a lot of their own food, and at various points we meet a gang of raiders and a truly unpleasant Bible basher. So far, so post apocalyptic.
But there's also some sci fi going on in there, and I didn't feel like the storylines meshed very well. Either story on its own would have been really cool, but for me, they didn't make sense put together. It felt a bit like Patrick Ness' Release, which had a great story about a teenager on the day everything in his life changed, and also something weird about a ghost and a faun that never really crossed over with the main story or made sense.
It's a shame, because individually the two stories - children grown up in a post apocalyptic world who are now moving out from the protection of adults, and the strange sci fi ness of the Deliverer - are entertaining. But by grafting them together, everything got confused, and plenty of storylines didn't get finished up properly. What was the illness killing the adults? Where did (redacted character) vanish to? Why did Kit seem to be remembering past lives when the person living them over and over was someone else entirely?
Not awful; definitely worth a look. But not one of the better ones, either.