The End We Start from Lib/E (Audiobook)

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4.5* At one level, this beguiling debut novel(la) by Megan Hunter can be enjoyed as a work of science fiction, or even as a Mieville-like piece of "new weird". Its setting is a contemporary London made strange by an inexplicable environmental phenomenon - the waters are rising, swallowing cities...

from AmaliaGavea

''In the darkness demons flew. Their shapes made a fearful noise until a voice called out, and they were still, and the silence was complete.''When we have read 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale , it is reasonable to believe that it would be rather difficult to be touched by any other dystopian novel....

from JulesGDSide

I'm not sure what I read here, but it was good. It was different from what I have read during the last years. It was weirdly beautiful. There were so many things in this book that rang true for me. It's hard to describe and hard to put a finger to a precise thing that I liked about this novella. ...

from hubblegal

A mother gives birth to a baby. However, the parents' happiness is marred by the floodwaters that are rising all around them. They're forced to evacuate with the newborn infant. They need to keep moving to find land above the flood levels. The news that is coming to them is not encouraging. Panic...

from JulesGDSide

I'm not sure what I read here, but it was good. It was different from what I have read during the last years. It was weirdly beautiful. There were so many things in this book that rang true for me. It's hard to describe and hard to put a finger to a precise thing that I liked about this novella. ...