Severance

I was intrigued by the premise and wanted to know what this was all about. But after finishing this, I'm not at all sure what to say about it. It's not exactly bad writing because even when I wasn't totally engaged, I kept listening to the audiobook. The author is also probably commenting on the perils of corporate culture where all us employees keep working like mindless creatures, gaining no satisfaction from work, but also not finding the time to do anything more pleasurable or satisfying. But the way this story is told - both in the flashbacks or in the present after a zombie like pandemic - it's very slice of life and boring and with not much connecting threads, and I was just left wondering what was the point of it all. Or maybe it's the brilliance of the author because she is satirizing our banal existence through this story. Ultimately I think it just wasn't for me, but I still wanna checkout the author's upcoming book Bliss Montage.