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jjaylynny 's review for:
The Dreamers
by Karen Thompson Walker
I'm indelibly drawn to dystopian speculative fiction; not sure why. I think I love the world-building layered over our own world-- fantasy does not work for me. I am fascinated by the question of how human society rebuilds itself. Which is rather ironic since if there was ever a real apocalypse-- I know I'd be one of the first gone. I'm super lazy, super wussy, filled with useless knowledge (well, not really, but not sure I could use my useful knowledge because see above [lazy and wussy]).
This book has a (sorry) dreamy feel to it; all action kind of observed at a distance. No character has a lot of inner life, though they're all interesting people. I unfortunately didn't feel connected to any one character. It's an interesting musing on a microcosm of our world in peril. But then it (the crisis) ends, and I'm left wondering (which is maybe the author's point): what did we learn?
This book has a (sorry) dreamy feel to it; all action kind of observed at a distance. No character has a lot of inner life, though they're all interesting people. I unfortunately didn't feel connected to any one character. It's an interesting musing on a microcosm of our world in peril. But then it (the crisis) ends, and I'm left wondering (which is maybe the author's point): what did we learn?