macheath's review
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Two linked post-nuclear apocalypse novellas from 1953 and 1954, among the earliest ever written about the subject. All subsequent post-apocalypse fiction heavily borrows from these stories, with especial borrowing of Lot's viewpoint character Mr. Jimmon, a 1950s dad if there ever was one. Mr. Jimmon, a ruthless corporate climber before the nuclear strike, finds his survive-at-any-cost ethos serves him very well in the new world. His daughter, the focus of the second story in the duology, is even more determined to survive. Very well-crafted SF/horror, shockingly bleak given the time period it was written.
milieve31's review against another edition
3.0
Read the first a while ago and enjoyed! Put off finishing the second for a bit but it added an interesting follow up and ending. Nothing particularly revolutionary but interesting enough, probably 3.5 if it were possible (pls gr I am once again asking you to implement half stars we’re all begging).
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