David’s Reviews > The Electric State > Status Update

Did I mention this is daaaark? The way the story is told thru both pictures and two narrators/storylines is fantastic.

There's a soundtrack! https://spotify.link/RcMwQscPEXb

I am absolutely riveted by this road trip and mesmerized by the hulking rust heaps of Stålenhag's roadside war machines. And yet, this isn't an apocalypse; life, society, culture lives on after the war, albeit much changed. Dystopia? Definitely.

...and nihilistic: "Someone should really heave those [giant spherical Sentre server] installations from their foundations and let them roll down the mountains into the suburbs, where they could crush whatever was left of all the gardens, houses, and responsible mothers and fathers and their SUVs and finally lay themselves calmly to rest in the abandoned city centers as memorials to humankind."

Good heavens this book is amazing.