How High We Go in the Dark

I heard such great things about this book, although I do not remember now where I heard that. I had high hopes and was sadly disappointed. 

I had just read The Wrack which was a similar concept of interconnected stories, all with different characters about the same event or happening. That story was also about a pandemic and at first, they were very similar. However, where those stories had lots of emotion and depth I felt these were very superficial. Especially in the beginning, all the stories were very sad but they didn't actually make me feel anything. They were just tragic in the most basic ways.

Some of the stories also felt very out of context and not at all relevant to the whole story. Like the talking pig. It was trying to be too much and the quality between stories varied wildly. A Gallery a Century, a Cry a Millennium, for instance, was great although again with too little depth in my opinion. The timelines were also very different as well. And the last chapter felt like a tack-on to connect all the stories because they weren't connected enough by themselves. 

This jumbled collection of disconnected stories is too ambitious for its own good and didn't do the hype justice.