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(More customer reviews)I was skeptical at first when within the first few pages Britney Spears dies. (I don't like the use of real people in fiction...it's just a peeve of mine...) and the autor seems to jump around a lot. There are some closing lines to a few chapter that seem ill-fitting like she is trying to set a tone that doesn't exist in the rest of the writing.
However, I kept reading and really really liked the book. In fact, some of the things that annoyed me early on became ok for me because of the content of the book.
The Phoenix flu becomes a bigger deal than I knew it would, and the story gets very engrossing. I don't care that we don't find out about Mark. I think the point is that Jiselle no longer cares about that. I do wish we knew what happened to Bobby's dad.
The only thing that fails to get done is to explain the Phoenix Flu pandamonium.You go from thinking most Americans don't care about it, and are not concerned to the end of the world.
It's reminisent of recent books like "The Road", and like other classic Orwell books.
The end of the world has come in the form of a virus just as Jiselle's dreams of marriage have come true. Now she has to deal with step children, and a husband who is never home (he's a pilot) just as America is battling a crisis.
It was a really fast read, and it suprised me, which I like. I didn't realize how dramatic the book was going to be.
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