![]() ![]() EXCEPT!!! Wouldn't you know, in the end she did not actually die, she is alive and no matter his final fate, in the ended he knows she lived and can be happy again. ![]() What happens to male characters that needs to be broken down? Well, you know it: an important woman in his life dies and he goes off the deep end. I honestly am not loving what I see in Cronin's pattern in writing female characters (sooo many of them are reduced to being pregnant and/or mothers), but I hate that when he needs a female character to be broken down completely, he has her be brutally raped. But why does the bad thing have to be the same thing for all the female characters - not only rape, but fucking sodomy. Don't get me wrong, it's post-apocalyptic horror fiction, OF COURSE bad things are gonna happen to the characters. At that point I thought we were just looking at your average second-book-in-a-trilogy story that wouldn't really get us anywhere in the end (plot-wise, since you're saving all of that for book three), but that I liked it because Cronin is really good at world-building and build-up. I did enjoy the first part of this book, the one that's mostly world-building and build-up. Luckily when we get to the actual plot that's done with. But some things ARE like that though, and that's scary. Same with the first book, anything to do with the initial outbreak just hits a little too close to home, even though it's of course nothing like the events in the book. First of all: man, reading this during the current pandemic is fucking something. ![]()
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