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328 reviews

A little unpolished, but a very sweet story.

This book is so disgustingly fatphobic. Every fat man is gross and wants to rape her, but the one stranger she meets who’s skinny is immediately trustworthy. The main character also thinks about the teacher she had before the world ended, and says “She was a big woman, fat actually. But she was nice so I almost felt bad when the other kids teased her.” 

It also does COVID conspiracy stuff because the Big Bad™ of the story is an institution called Immunity, and we take time to mention how the vaccine they develop is “probably nothing more than sugar water” and how the “safety measures” they put in place are “taking away people’s rights”. At the end it turns out that Immunity also created the plague in the first place. It’s giving very “plandemic” nonsense. 

Also, I recognize that this is post apocalyptic fiction and there aren’t a lot of people left, but the main character tries coming onto a seventeen year old (she’s 22 at the time…) and when he isn’t happy about this (he’s literally in tears!!!) she wonders angrily to herself whether he’s “gay, or just a scared little boy”. Which I found super gross.