This is a very big, very heavy story; much heavier than I expected, when I started it. This is good! I often crave for dystopian stories to be deeper This is a very big, very heavy story; much heavier than I expected, when I started it. This is good! I often crave for dystopian stories to be deeper and more developed and fleshed out.
I loved the way the author had conducted the story and used all kinds of written documents gathered during "the plague" such as diaries, email correspondence, blogs, etc.with it all being framed by an anthropologist's collection of said documents to become a book about the individuals experience of this event.
The author manages to provide ud with overly many perspectives and different individual situations of how this event was experienced from the first doctor who encountered patient zero, to the politicians, and several private families tragic stories spread around the world. Honestly it has been a emotional and cognitive rollercoaster and mentally draining to read this one, probably partly because I listened to the audiobook, and finished it in one day.
I feel the author manages to balance which informations is important, and which can be let out, rather smoothly, and I feel I have a much more complete experience of the event and it's consequences,than almost every other apocalyptic/dystopian story I've read
That being said... This story has a plot which has so much meat on the bones, it could easily have been fleshed much much more out, and it has the potential to (have) become a series of stories of this event. And the aftermath. It still can, and I'm sure this author has the creativity to make it, without ending up making this one feel like a trial story to test the waters for a more thoroughly developed series. ...more
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