Meryl > Recent Status Updates

I’m 12 pages in and I’m already planning to buy this book.

"Well I don't see why they've rationed sweets. You don't get sweets from grass, do you?" ACTUALLY YES SUGAR CANE IS A GRASS.

and finally beginning to get a handle on the specific issues I have with this book.

I have many thoughts on this book for far, and all of them are negative.

and not sure if I am going to bother finishing. There's so many troubling things about this story. Colonialism, white-saviour, refrigerator wife...I keep cringing. I'm not enjoying it at all. It's not badly written, just problematic.

and so far the book is delivering a rollicking adventure. I would like to strangle the main character on occasion (17 and obnoxious) but she's realistically obnoxious, not spunky-YA-heroine obnoxious. The worldbuilding is fascinating and the supporting characters intriguing. As long as it doesn't go pear-shaped in the next 200 pages, it's a win.

"If she had come two years before, maybe even later, he might have violated her. " So did all those five-star reviewers just skip this line?

and the female survivor appears. WEARING A WHITE FREAKING DRESS. I want to smack this author so hard in his stupid face.

Where do I even start with how much this rubbish is pissing me off?

and the book is really showing its age.