Okay, I’m in the minority here, as about 95% of you liked the book, but I just couldn’t do it. For on thing, there were no quotation marks around dialogue, just like No One Belongs Here More Than You. Isn’t it enough that we try to figure out what characters feel from what they said? I’m not particularly excited about having to first work to figure out which words were said, and then by whom, and then analyze them for meaning. Oh, and the apostrophe thing? Did the big apocalypse destroy half the apostrophes in the world? I’m not sure if this is supposed to reflect that the book takes place in the future, or symbolizes man’s beginning reversion to savagery or what, but it’s weird.
And – cardinal sin – halfway through, I didn’t care if any of them lived or died, so I’m out.