This is a warning sign for our future in the form of a post-apocalyptic dystopian novel.
Reading The Electric Kingdom was like putting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle (note that I LOVE puzzles). There is some light romance, a theme of family, and note a slight trigger warning for sexual assault (it is not described at all just mentioned).
This book reminds me in a strange way of the 2016 movie Arrival... I won't give too much away but you should really really read this book.
Also the story of Kit calling Dakota "my Dakota" is so heart-meltingly sweet.
I read this book back in 6th grade before I knew what anorexia or SA or abuse even were. Flash forward to my high school years and I have experienced all the things that this book covers and the memory of reading it in 6th grade came back to me because it accurately depicted how I felt and it made me feel less alone, like someone understood. Amazing, inspiring, heartbreaking, lifechanging book.
I did not expect much for this book. I saw it at the library and wasn't going to check it out but I'm so glad I did. It was so different from any other dystopian/apocalyptic novel I had ever read, set several generations after the disaster, and that made me unsure if I even wanted to finish it but something about the writing kept drawing me in and eventually I couldn't put it down if I wanted to. I won't give away anything but the twists and turns of this book were completely unexpected which made it so fun to read. Overall really great writing and an amazing plot, definitely one of my new favorites.
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