A review by octygon
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

3.0

This was a really different book. Set in the near future, after a disease has killed off the majority of the world's population, it is a quiet and more contemplative book that I expected. It is really about how people, individually and as a society, can rebound from such a horrific blow. How do we build new relationships and start to look more toward the future, and try to stop regretting what we have lost? There were some eye-rolling moments of amazing coincidences, but I still enjoyed it. I listened to the audiobook on my commute. The narrator was terrific, and I feel that's saying something for a book that alternates between various points of view. She does a great job giving different tones to the separate characters.