Author: Khel Milam
Genre: Novella, Post-Apocalyptic
Page Count: 109
Cover Artist: www.designforwriters.com
Publisher: Eponym
Release Date: June 15th 2015
My Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
A girl and a boy encounter one another on the road during a post apocalyptic time. But rather than this book focusing on the zombies and living dead, it's more on the nature of the people still alive, in this case the boy and girl, and their survival technique. The author heightens the fact that the boy and girl are strangers by never giving them names. Rather instead he gives these two characters complete different stances on how to continue on in a world left for ruins.
Highlights and Thoughts:
- This book picked up some after the first chapter but never really took off for me.
- There was too many He's and She's; by that I mean I wish the characters would have had names.
- I liked the introductory quotes with Dickens and Siddhartha they were fitting.
- There are some clever prose, while the characters are in conversation. This was the reason I read through to the end.
- The girl has a family, she basically plays mother to two dogs and a cat. They are all very loyal to the girl, the dogs especially, as they depend on her for their survival.
- The boy summed up is full of fear, he's a safety in numbers kind of person. Instead of embracing what has happened he resents it to where it tares a hole in him. He's also a little rough around the edges, which he displays with all his cursing.
- The girl summed up is logical, rational, unique, and knows who she is. By how she presents herself, she knew all along who she was before people started dying only not to be dead.
- The message I got from reading this book, people are dead when they're standing still and alive when they keep moving.
I received this book from a giveaway listed by the author, Khel Milam (thank you for the book), on Goodreads.com. In return this is my honest opinion of the reading.
RAD MOUTH
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