The Brief History of the Dead

I really enjoyed this book until Laura Byrd starts realizing she's the only person left and all the people in the “after” start disappearing, then it all gets a little too predictable. Like many said, it's an amazing short story that just went on way too long.

I enjoyed this book, but I think I would have enjoyed it even more if I had skipped reading reviews prior to pulling it off the shelf. Plot points revealed in most reviews took away from the discoveries meant to take place as you read. I enjoyed the characters and was left wanting to know more about them. The end felt anticlimactic to me, but that is likely more of a preference thing than an issue with the book itself.