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Leave the World Behind was a huge disappointment for me. The writing was confusing and made it difficult to discern who was speaking. Additionally, I found the unnecessary sexualization of certain elements in the book to be off-putting. While the premise of the book had meager potential, it didn't deliver at all.

The book's portrayal of a city-wide blackout as a catastrophic event seemed unrealistic given recent events, such as the electricity shortages in Ukraine due to multiple massive rocket attacks by Russia.
The main character even didn't suffer from it, because all they experienced so far was not working cell service. Their fear just didn't make any sense at all. There were so many illogical moments in this book, that it drives me crazy. The city is 20 minutes away from them and they are afraid for some reason to drive there. Why? I don't know. Their son's teeth started falling out and they didn't get him to a doctor. Like why? For the last third of the book the adult characters were screaming that they are PARENTS and they did nothing? Because they were scared to go to the city? I don't believe that at all. You get over yourself when you fear for someone else, especially your kid.

The most annoying thing for me is that the charecters didn't even want to find out what happened. Oh I guess that the author just coundn't come up with what so catastrofic had to happen. What a great way out.

Overall, I didn't appreciate the lack of effort and editing put into this book. I have a strong impresion that the author has a strong dislike of Barack Obama and just want to write his fantasy of president hiding in the bunker. There was no logic or resolution in the book whatsoever.