This book was an odd recipe that combines college-level physics concepts with a mish-mash of religious parables and spiritual symbols. It sort of felt like there were too many balls in the air all the time. The first dozen or so chapters involve the protagonist flitting about between things she wants to do and fires she has to put out and sort of weird excuses to exposition us (I thought the exposition toward the beginning was particularly cringeworthy, but it got better). Part of that is due to one of the things I paradoxically respect: the author spent a LOT of time and energy making it very clear exactly how much things sucked for her protagonist and those in her world, and while I'm glad she didn't skimp on the details of, you know, how living in a post-nuclear-disaster world means living with the inevitability of aggressive cancer and a 20% infant mortality rate, it also just wasn't enjoyable to read (for me) because of the emphasis put on that. I'm giving it three stars because even though I thought some aspects of it were well done and other aspects of it are things I really respect, I also didn't enjoy reading it.
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