Soft Apocalypse is a novel set during the slow decline of North America in the near future. None of this seems like it’s a book review? Well let’s get back on track. Firstly, novels about the very worst of humanity’s potential are sometimes also the ones that help us see clearly what is best about our deeply flawed existence, and secondly, books about possible futures are most often commentaries on our very real present. I love my book club for a few very good reasons, but somewhere in the deluge of fantasy I have read this year I had lost my way and forgotten my reasons. Then I remembered I was reading it for book club, the book club I have been a member of for 2 years, that same book club that only reads post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels. I thought it was going to be slow and dull, just another book about the end of the world, and not an exciting one at that. I didn’t think I was going to like this book. A slow burning novel about the end of the world.
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