Book Review: Run by Blake Crouch

Run by Blake Crouch
My rating: 8 of 10 stars

Pages : 331 pages

Year :  2011

Genre : Dystopia, Post-Apocalpytic 

Series : Solo

This book is nothing new , nothing that hasn't been done before. It has no reason to be as interesting and compelling as it is.

We've got a half the world that has gone mad and a family that was on brink of being torn apart that has to get together to be alive. Basically that's it. So what's good about this?

Well, in the beginning there is a lot of stuff the family has to overcome, a almost broke marriage (with his wife already jumping the fence and being "honest" about it), a daughter that is in rebel phase and a boy who have seen some lights in the sky in the night everything went to shit.

I think that this is the most important part of the novel, even with all the mayhem going around. Blake Crouch makes this family-centred story. Although there was some stuff I didn't enjoy. First of all was the mother, she is annoying as shit, always demanding, always incorrect with the her husband even if herself was not being correct during the marriage (Although we are told by the author that his mainly HIS fault). She even goes, BE A MAN! (because as a woman she is incapable (?) of handling shit when things get really though? You know nowadays, society talks about toxic masculinity. Everything that resembles a male think is seen as everything less than evil. BUT when things got desperate, and you are not eating in days - that's when the wife say " BE A MAN!". I think I see that happening to all of those feminists that think they are better than men (Btw, I a strong believer, to each is own, each has his own role, nobody should be superior to another).

So, should you read this? Yes. If you want character driven book with strong family values overcoming odds (or not - not going to spoil) then yes. There will be blood, death but "family" friendly with no rapes or such. It seems the bad guys only want to kill you! This book reminds me of other novels like The Road (although that was very depressing). It remind of Tim Curran own novel that deal with the transformation of society (although that was one of the most gross books I've read - and one of my favourite)

My only complains was the plot itself or lack of it. 8 out of 10. Nothing is really why stuff happened or how far it went. OH well

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