A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

I ended up really enjoying listing to this book. While I'm not a huge fan of the post apocalyptic sub genre, especially in literature, as with most art quality will overcome much. It seems the author, is more of a fan of this type of story then me, and does allude to this in the story. And that is a good thing, I think it helps in both them crafting a good story, and knowing both what tropes work, and what ones are ripe for being manipulated.

The story itself is much more a traditional young adult natural adventure novel, just set in a world that his been very depopulated. But what I really enjoyed about this story is how it ended up being a story it keeps telling you it is not. The lead character, Griz, narrates the novel, and Griz is a reader. And this is how the author ends up mentioning other P-A stories that obviously influenced this one. I'm a bit surprised that more of the adventuring stories don't also get name checked since like I said they are obviously a big influence as well.

I'm usually a bit vague regarding plots in my reviews, since I don't like to spoil the experience for the future reader. And I'm going to be so in this one is well. Especially since I very much enjoyed going into this fairly cold and just enjoying the ride as Griz went adventuring.

I was inspired to read this book while it was one I had for a while, was also on Jenny (Reading Envy) Colvin's to read pile as well. And since she had just passed, I thought it was appropriate to not only read a few books on that list, but also to write up some reviews, since that was something she was always doing. After finishing this, it also made me a bit sad that she had not gotten around to this one, since what little I know about her, I think she would have very much enjoyed it as well.