Julia’s Reviews > The Quiet at the End of the World > Status Update

So I went from thinking that this is the worst time to read this book to thinking it might actually be the opposite. I think I like this book even more now than I would have when it was released a year ago. Even though the book’s virus; which people thought only had “mild, flu like symptoms” and turned out to be devastating for the entire human population, is still scary and triggers my corona anxiety a bit...

At first the social media posts from a girl in the time of the virus was a bit triggering, but after her initial panic calmed down her thoughts about the new normal are actually very relevant! She puts words on some of the thoughts I (and most people I know) have been having about the way things feel “normal” now and how some things from before feel so strange and foreign now.

I’m trying to stop reading the description of books before I read them (I read at least one book in between reading the description of a book and actually reading it (I keep a few downloaded at a time)) and therefore wasn’t prepared for reading about a post apocalyptic world after a virus. At first the social media posts from a girl in the time of the virus was a bit triggering, but after her initial panic...