Radio Apocalypse
Books | Young Adult Fiction / LGBTQ
3.6
Kayleigh Gallagher
It's been nearly seven thousand days since the world ended. Seven thousand days of devastation, seven thousand days of shifting wastelands and dangerous creatures, seven thousand days of a vicious fight for survival. Humanity has long gone silent, except for two voices. Lota's broadcast has served as the sole beacon in this time of darkness for years now, and she reports on everything from daily events to her own deepest fears in the hopes of connecting with another person. But these hopes begin to dwindle as time goes on, and it becomes increasingly evident that solitary survival under these conditions is unlikely at best. Rachel, meanwhile, lives on her own in the empty shell of her family's former home and place of work, a laboratory across the ocean, doing anything she can to get by. But when a mysterious disease ravages Rachel's crops and the ghosts of her past come back to haunt her, it becomes increasingly evident that she needs to leave. She has nowhere to go, however, until one night, the impossible happens: she uncovers Lota's broadcast. Then it becomes a race for them to beat the odds-to cross an ocean and hundreds of miles of radioactive land, outrun superhuman mutations and monsters of every kind, not to mention braving the elements-and for two of the last people on earth to find each other.
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Author
Kayleigh Gallagher
Pages
508
Publisher
Kayleigh Gallagher
Published Date
2022-03-05
ISBN
1088011128 9781088011126
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"I tried very hard to like this book, but it is so boring. the two main characters take FOREVER to meet up and when they do the romance happens to fast, and the characters also have no personality. There is also so much explaining with world building that when you finally start to get an idea of what it can look like, something else is brought up and counterdicts it. the world building is also very difficult to do. This book is also a good 400 pages, and about 300 of them are useless. Good idea, bad execution "
"Fantastic concept, mediocre execution. There are so many chapters that just don’t need to be there, and so many details that get either repeated or just don’t matter to the story at all. Every few pages I was intensely aware of the hand of the author, and I found myself wishing that Lota got perspective chapters. I think having even one Lota pov chapter would’ve been better than the dialogue-disguised narration, which we got more than once during her chapters, instead. Overall the story was.. boring, in more than one place, but not for lack of action. I think the largest fault of the writing style are the needlessly thorough descriptions in the wrong places. Full pages could have been easily removed without affecting the plot or the character development, and I think that’s something an editor should’ve have cropped.
I’ll end my diatribe here — I loved the characters, but I think I would have loved them more if we got to learn more about them instead of just the environment they were dropped into. I can recall more about the places they visited than the characters, and I think that spells the major issue I had with this book."