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The Age Of Miracles (2012)

by Karen Thompson Walker(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0812992970 (ISBN13: 9780812992977)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Random House

review 1: Overall I enjoyed this book. It was an interesting concept and took a look at what people would do if their world completely changed. My biggest issue was all of the foreshadowing. It felt very heavy handed and it seemed like every chapter ended with a 'it would never be the same again' or 'if we knew then what we know now'. With all of the foreshadowing about what the future was like I was surprised to not read more about how the humans ultimately coped with the changes in the earth.
review 2: A white knuckle cross between science fiction and YA angst, with a touch of dystopia thrown in (although not, I think believe, published for a teen audience). These aren't Hunger Games type shenanigans though - rather, the main character is a normal everyday eleve... moren year old pubescent girl, with lots of typical problems (popularity, parents, a boy), and one big problem - the world's rotation is slowing down for some unexplained reason, and all life on earth is essentially ending. The plot device of using the eleven year old's mostly self centered eyes to describe the endtimes is literarily innovative and interesting. Walker's slow drip, drip, dripping into this bildungsroman of at first mild dismay and discomfort followed by anxiety and finally horror (of the psychological variety, not the zombies eating brains variety) is what keeps you wide-eyed and horrified, unable to put the book down, wanting to know what happens next. It's the end of the world as we know it, but you the reader know that things are probably not going to be fine. less

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