Plague

okay so i got to 80% of this book before giving up! a record since books that disinterest me usually get abandoned earlier but for all its flaws i wanted to keep skimming for the graphic descriptions of dead or sick people. vomiting black. gross bruises. stuff like that. then i couldn't get over the weird portrayal of asshole men. not dislikable characters mind you – i love those. it just didn't seem to be written in a way that they were supposed to be disliked but three was 1) duncan, a man who keeps a woman waiting 30 minutes to teach her a lesson about patient called a “nice guy” by others, even tho he badmouthed his date; 2) the awkward shade thrown as muslim “feminine rights” not women rights but rights....that are feminine??? and 3) “Indiginous tribles rarely adopted anything good from civilization; there was no money in teaching them about books and computers. Instead, Coca-Cola and Marlboro were the greeters at the door.” the writing was already mediocre and i didn't mind. there were dozens of confusing pronoun uses and it read like an amateur piece of work but i wasn't in it for magnificent prose. i just wanted sick people. still, the social commentary was too much for me this time.

and this could have all been the characters' thoughts instead of the authors (i did not mind the jumping from different characters' pov. it was a good way to show how the illness affected so many people and places) but i didnt get that impression.

really i think now i want to read world war z or watch contagion for a story that actually does the multiple-ppl-sick thing well. good bye, plague trilogy. you could've been the perfect trashy guilty pleasure but now you're just trash. i'll be unshelving the sequel of this asap. boy am i glad i didn't waste a cent.