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Halfway through this and so far it's bad 'The Stand' fan fiction. Amazing how the message so many authors took from the source was "man, what if the world ended and something MESSED UP happened to one of the survivors?!"

"Man, this is really intense and kind of a downer. I think I need a break before I continue."

::comes back a month later and promptly reads a rape scene::

"God DAMN IT."

As an atheistic technocrat, there's something deeply weird about a book that's cheerfully anti-technology and eager to embrace the charismatic leadership of an extremist religious figure who wants all her followers to pack up and move to a town in the mountains to prepare for their final battle against the forces of darkness. Ugh. This reads so much more poorly than it did when I was 17.