Al C. (vavoice) - reviewed on 7/7/2019 + 158 more book reviews

This novel was selected by my local book club for this month. It was a decent read, though it is not my preferred genre. Without reading any other reviews, here is my brief take.

Mia and her daughter, Pearl, are an unintentional virus, injected into a modern-day utopia, Shaker Heights. Usually, when I think of Dystopian settings, it would be in a Speculative Fiction (SF) novel; but here it is, happening in our own time. In our own neighborhoods. And, as with most dystopian novels, both sides of the equation experience the full range of experience, including the pain, the education, self-evaluation, realization, and maturation.

I would add more, but I'm afraid that would spoil the story. Suffice to say I was interested enough to finish this novel, which has not always been the the case in this group which leans more toward those books that go good with a nice bottle of wine, where my tastes are more beer and bourbon :o)

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