World War Z

This book is about as 2006 as you can get. It should be studied in a museum for how Americans used to see themselves and the rest of the world at the height of neoliberal self-belief. It is a story written in a world before the GFC, Trump, and COVID.

The best example is China being shown as technologically backwards and administratively inept with their inferior communist government.

The concept is cool, but hard to pull off in an engaging way. Also I can't be the only one confused at how similar every single person sounded. Surely you could get an editor to run through it and help give each individual a unique voice. I didn't even realise some characters had come back at the end without checking their names.