A review by bookmeabreak
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie

emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I really don't know how I felt about this book. Like I knew where it was going, or thought I did and really wished that it had gone that way instead of what actually happened. 

I did like the beginning how it started. The film take of counting down to before the incident and then the count away of how long it's been going. I was enjoying the person to person view point and how one person would end on another person and then we would pick up where we left from the last view point to the new one. It gave me what movies are now starting to do where they "don't cut away" from scene to scene. Craig did a great job of this. I also enjoyed the dilemma of morality. What do we do when the blood runs out. Wait do we wait for the blood to run out because of what's occuring as we go. Parents split on each side of the fence. Do you give yourself completely to your children when they're like this.

Maybe as a bystander and not having kids the answer is easier for me. If you act the way they were acting. I'm keeping my blood and moving to the woods away from everyone. If I were a parent would I feel differently?

Three stars because I really really hated the ending and then that one couple that had zero stakes in the game and still did a foolish decision. I would have just preferred it all to have ended the world. It would have made sense, but that's not how it ended...and it is. I don't know. Something about it just rubbed me wrong. No me gusta.

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