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A review by koalathebear
Fever by Deon Meyer
3.0
I haven't read a post-apocalyptic novel set in South Africa before so found if fascinating. The narration by Will Damron was also excellent and evocative.
The cast of characters was interesting, the storyline engaging... What made me not give the book a higher score in the end was the strangely WTF ending. It was almost as if towards the end, the author couldn't figure out if it was a post apocalyptic novel, a biographical novel or a whodunnit ... he'd thrown crumbs out through the book that we'd met/seen the murderer before .. but when we found out the truth, it was a dramatic twist - but didn't quite make sense or stack up. A real shame given that 95% of the book was excellent and I was surprised by how compelling and convincing even unsympathetic characters like the pastor were.
The cast of characters was interesting, the storyline engaging... What made me not give the book a higher score in the end was the strangely WTF ending. It was almost as if towards the end, the author couldn't figure out if it was a post apocalyptic novel, a biographical novel or a whodunnit ... he'd thrown crumbs out through the book that we'd met/seen the murderer before .. but when we found out the truth, it was a dramatic twist - but didn't quite make sense or stack up. A real shame given that 95% of the book was excellent and I was surprised by how compelling and convincing even unsympathetic characters like the pastor were.