I received a gifted copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
✨Book Review✨
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
(7.28.20 Mullholland)
“You can’t imagine how much the world can change in six months. You just can’t.”
A couple months ago I read The Mother Code and I’ve got The Gunslinger and Severance on my current TBR. I’ve loved pandemic and post-apocalyptic fiction for years and I am not shying away from it despite current events. I was especially excited to read Afterland because I loved Lauren Beukes' 2013 release, The Shining Girls. I was not let down with Afterland! I loved the characters in this novel. Not just the main characters but all the secondary characters. They were so well written, even the ones that are just a tiny blip on the radar of this story. Beukes also does a wonderful job of keeping the tension palpable while interspersing smaller subplots and flashbacks.
Human Culgoa Virus (HCV), a highly contagious flu which turns into an aggressive prostate cancer in men and boys has lead to a less than 1% survival rate among males. Some countries thrive without the all-male militias, alternative economies emerge, and anarchist groups attempt to bring down banking and eliminate debt and immigration records. In the United States, Quarantined Males (QMs) and their Direct Surviving Relatives (DSRs) are rounded up and sent to government facilities to be studied. During an attempt to leave the country, Cole and her son Miles are discovered and sent to one of these centers. Determined to get her son to safety in Johannesburg, Cole and her sister Billie plan an escape, but Billie has plans of her own.
Also pictured, Sesame Chicken Salad and my new cutting board.
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