bambrose42 's review for:

Blindness by José Saramago
4.0
dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
It's hard for me not to compare this to a zombie apocalypse. The book opens with the blindness spreading slowly person to person, and eventually all of society decays, with a small band of characters having to fend for themselves in a world where everything has fallen apart. This is happens to be a good conceit from which to tackle uncomfortable ideas about society and I think it works a lot better than the zombie genre. 
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