I still can't figure out what all of the fuss is about.
As a story, this is a failure because it tells you nothing. You ask questions -- what was the great big apocalypse, who did it, where is everyone, how did these people manage to survive -- but you don't get any answers.
As a testament of how strong parental love can be ... well, I had difficulty "getting" this from the story because the language was so sparse that any great acts of love came off as sounding hollow. More details may have gone against the book's style, but it would have rung truer and had more of an emotional impact.
Mercifully, it was a fast and simple, yet unsatisfying, read.
As a story, this is a failure because it tells you nothing. You ask questions -- what was the great big apocalypse, who did it, where is everyone, how did these people manage to survive -- but you don't get any answers.
As a testament of how strong parental love can be ... well, I had difficulty "getting" this from the story because the language was so sparse that any great acts of love came off as sounding hollow. More details may have gone against the book's style, but it would have rung truer and had more of an emotional impact.
Mercifully, it was a fast and simple, yet unsatisfying, read.
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