Wanderers

Wow, this book puts you through the wringer. I actually got it as an ARC way back in like 2018-19 somewhere in there, but the size of it just meant I never really found the time to commit to reading it. I wonder how differently it would have read pre-2020. If everyone had read this, would we have managed our pandemic so badly?

Wanderers is a sprawling story of the end of the world. Multi-faceted perspectives and storylines. Gut-wrenching emotional arcs. Amoral artificial intelligence. Really a book written for me. My reading time these days is often limited to before sleep, and I found myself staying up later and later just to see what happens next. It's a masterclass in plotting and pacing while still containing dozens of viscerally real characters.

That said, trigger warnings EVERYWHERE, particularly around pandemics and violence, so investigate those if you need to before you commit to this tome.