Christine G. (Cricket) reviewed on + 69 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
Talk about a POINTLESS book!!!! I don't get all the craze and rave reviews about this book!!! Absolutely nothing much happened in this book and the somewhat notable things that did happen have been done over and over again in many other books.
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Something awful has happened to the world and only a few scraggly survivors remain. The story is about a father and son who are left and really only have each other. They are traveling along 'the road' to get to the coast...for some unknown reason. The dad just thinks going to the coast is a good idea for some reason. They trudge along finding abandoned shelters and left behind supplies that they gather together and push around in a cart. The son seems pretty young, maybe about 10, so he gets tired and sick a lot. Sometimes along the way they run into other survivors, some good, some bad. They make it to the coast eventually and then towards the end the father dies and the boy is left on his own for like a day until another group of people comes along and takes him in. And..that's pretty much everything. Luckily this book has very little description so it was a quick read.
I guess the story was supposed to be about the father/son bond and relationship during hard times, but I didn't really care about them. This whole end of the world BS has been done over and over. Even Stephen King did a much better job in The Stand making the reader care about his characters. I'm glad I'm done with this book. It was lame!
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Something awful has happened to the world and only a few scraggly survivors remain. The story is about a father and son who are left and really only have each other. They are traveling along 'the road' to get to the coast...for some unknown reason. The dad just thinks going to the coast is a good idea for some reason. They trudge along finding abandoned shelters and left behind supplies that they gather together and push around in a cart. The son seems pretty young, maybe about 10, so he gets tired and sick a lot. Sometimes along the way they run into other survivors, some good, some bad. They make it to the coast eventually and then towards the end the father dies and the boy is left on his own for like a day until another group of people comes along and takes him in. And..that's pretty much everything. Luckily this book has very little description so it was a quick read.
I guess the story was supposed to be about the father/son bond and relationship during hard times, but I didn't really care about them. This whole end of the world BS has been done over and over. Even Stephen King did a much better job in The Stand making the reader care about his characters. I'm glad I'm done with this book. It was lame!
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