A review by svjak
All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I struggled a bit at the beginning because the way the author wrote each POV was too similar and I kept getting them mixed up, or I would be reading and forget whose POV I was reading. 

After a few chapters I started to get a better feel for their individual personalities and could enjoy the slow-burn of their kinda enemies to friends to lovers relationship. 

I really felt like I was going on a journey with Andrew and Jamie, exploring the world they were living in and their quest to get to some place better. It was wholesome and nice to read a dystopian post-apocalyptic novel with some lgbtqia+ rep. 

The only complaint I have is about the world building. It felt like it heavily leaned on the experiences of the past few years with COVID and the reader had to create a lot of the backstory based on those experiences. That held things together when I read it now in 2022 but I don't know how that's going to hold up in the future when things may change (hopefully) and fear of a pandemic isn't fresh in the readers minds. 

But for right now in 2022, I enjoyed this book.
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