Good for: People who liked The Lovely Bones, but could do without all the rapin' and murderin'.
Watch out for: Parts being a little slow, re-liking coming-of-age novels
August 8, 2012
Book review!: The Age of Miracles
When I first told my friend Sarah that I was reading this book and liking it, I described it like this: "It's kind of a coming-of-age, post-apocalyptic novel." And Sarah replied, "I don't like coming-of-age or post-apocalyptic novels." Which is a totally fair point. Both those things sound sort of insufferable if you're not in a sophomore English class. But somehow this book makes it work.
The 11 year old narrator is a smart, wise, perceptive narrator, not a weird precocious kid narrator. It makes you so glad you're not in 6th grade anymore. So I'd say it's really just a smart, not maudlin coming-of-age story that just so happens to be set mid-apocalypse. And that sounds fine, right?
Good for: People who liked The Lovely Bones, but could do without all the rapin' and murderin'.
Watch out for: Parts being a little slow, re-liking coming-of-age novels
Good for: People who liked The Lovely Bones, but could do without all the rapin' and murderin'.
Watch out for: Parts being a little slow, re-liking coming-of-age novels
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hmmm. lovely bones without the murderin and rapin... what's left? i love coming of age novels, but hate post-apocalypic ones (except hunger games) but maybe the point is that if a book is REALLY GOOD it don't matter what genre you call it.
ReplyDeleteI kind of misspoke. It's really mid-apocalypse, if that helps?
DeleteOoops, I meant I LOVE coming-of-age and don't like post-apocalyptic. I liked the Lovely Bones too, so maybe I just need to take my foot out of my mouth.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad, though, that Kerry has the same knee-jerk reaction.
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Oh, I'm sorry! I totally misheard you. I think you'd like this book though. Not like "OMG GO GET IT RIGHT NOW" but like, if you're between books and are like "Huh... what should I read?", I'd say to check this one out.
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