A review by bergha1998
Midnight, Water City by Chris McKinney

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love this book. It’s dialogue on almost a cultish scientific religion, what it could take to make the world get along, and the “truth” and what it means. I get that it isn’t the easiest start of the book. The MMC is asshole for a good 1/2 of it, but goodness it gets good. 

“The whole dating scene hung was a meltdown for her, an attempt to satisfy the craving to be normal. She was, in fact, not normal… she sometimes felt guilty for just being who she was.” 

“Looking at the past is the only way to accurately predict the future.”

“Thinking in percentages like that might make us smarter, but it also makes us worst. When it comes to human beings, it makes acceptable causalities and extermination easier because all we’re getting rid of is a number.”

“Gods don’t make us into their images, we make them into ours.” 

“I spent most of my life believing that history was where you found the truth. That you could just revisit a past thing again and again until you discovered it.”

“Walk forward and thrive without judgement, without mirrors. And most importantly, be thankful for every fleeting thing you’ve got in this near-apocalypse garbed in a riot of color.”
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