Review: After the Flood

After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓱," 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭. "𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓽𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓪 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓭. 𝓢𝓸 𝓘 𝓪𝓬𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘'𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓲𝓽.”

⏳𝐓𝐋;𝐃𝐑:⏳
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬: In the near future, most of the cities that we know have been submerged by water; people cluster on the diminishing land or try to eke out an existence on the water. Single mother Myra has lived with her daughter Pearl on a boat for the past seven years, trying to survive while also searching for Myra's first daughter, Row, who was stolen by her father during the major flood of their home in Nebraska. Myra and Row join up with strangers and a large ship in a search for a safe haven and for Row, even if those two goals may not coincide.
𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭: Gave me major pirate vibes, love the post-apocalyptic background, lots of action yet the plot is still pretty character-centric
𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Bleak, a little flowery but still readable
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: Myra is caught in her own grief, Pearl is just trying to connect with her mother; lots of realistic reflections about what is the "right" thing to do

👍𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬:👍
-I was really digging those pirate vibes
-The mix of action + character development was A+
-Strong writing
-Bleakness but light amidst the dark (if you don't like bleak and dark novels, don't read this one)

👎𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬:👍
-Slightly slow start
-Mostly believable character choices, but a few were a little questionable...

𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸.

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