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Dear Ms. Weaver:
It has been a long time (or so it seems) since your last release and I have anxiously awaited it. The result may be a case of missed expectations. This book had a fun premise but was weak in the execution.
Best friends, Iris and Russ are snuggled up together on Halloween watching movies when an Emergency Broadcast Alert goes out, the satellite service dies and then the power goes. Soon after the phones are dead. If you were the last two people on earth, wouldn’t you repopulate?
The problem with this is a) there is no mention of the internet and b) there is no mention of cell phones. Not even to say that the laptop battery is dead and so is the cell phone. Was this 1984 instead of 2004?
Ivy, despite being friends with Russ for decades and knowing how attractive he is to the opposite sex, has never had one thought of Russ as a sexual creature. Or so we are led to believe. Ivy is an unreliable narrator, even in her internal monologues which creates enormous …
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