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If 28 Days Later and The Road had a daughter

The Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff

March 18, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

This was Round 2 of my ongoing “what’s going in in the world of Irish science fiction?” quest. (Round 1 was here.) First off: great title, no? I was instantly intrigued, especially with the description, and I liked this weird sense I was getting of the post-apocalypse as a site of feminist possibility rather than just endless misogyny and threatened sexual violence. (Sigh.) The premise is straightforward: Orpen lives with her mother and her mother’s partner, Maeve, on an isolated island off the coast of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies ·
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The world is falling apart, but the magic is coming together

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

September 14, 2020 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

This felt like a post-apocalyptic story within a post-post-post-apocalyptic story. In the aftermath of the last Fifth Season (a catastrophic event that causes massive destruction and changes the face of the Earth for an unspecified amount of time; the last one started in the first book), Essun finds herself in a new community, with everyone learning how to live and work together. There are bandits and bad communities, internal strife, lack of food and resources, and the usual post-apocalyptic worries. Of course, this being an […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: n.k. jemisin, Post Apocalyptic, THe Broken Earth Trilogy, we need diverse books

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: n.k. jemisin, Post Apocalyptic, THe Broken Earth Trilogy, we need diverse books ·
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Late to the party, but so glad I finally made it!

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

July 12, 2020 by Bothari43 1 Comment

I knew this would be good (pages and pages of CBR reviews told me so), and I was not disappointed. There was some truly incredible world-building, some interesting writing choices (second-person point of view chapters?), and characters I wanted to hug or fight battles with. I can’t wait to read the next one! It feels silly to recap the plot when everyone has read it already, but here goes (in case this review is the final straw that pushes you into reading it and joining […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: earthquake powers, n.k. jemisin, Post Apocalyptic, THe Broken Earth Trilogy, too lazy for bingo, we need diverse books

Bothari43's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: earthquake powers, n.k. jemisin, Post Apocalyptic, THe Broken Earth Trilogy, too lazy for bingo, we need diverse books ·
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Clones! Super Soldiers! Post Apocalyptic Road Trip!

Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha

June 27, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I have been anticipating this book for months and was delighted to get an arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Deal With the Devil was everything I wanted it to be. I’ve already read it FOUR times. Today a drive from Atlanta to Chattanooga would take about two hours, maybe more with traffic and where you start in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. In Kit Rocha’s Deal with the Devil, it’s about 5 days with decomposing roadways, collapsed bridges, medical emergencies, armed […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: kit rocha, Mercenary Librarians, Post Apocalyptic

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: kit rocha, Mercenary Librarians, Post Apocalyptic ·
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A much stranger re-read than I was expecting

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

June 22, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballRead10, #Science Fiction, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, Malin, Post Apocalyptic, re-read, Station Eleven

Malin's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CannonballRead10, #Science Fiction, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, Malin, Post Apocalyptic, re-read, Station Eleven ·
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