The Quiet Earth

“We're in limbo, stuck between a gone world which presses threats and memories in on us, vividly, one moment, then falls away into a sullen gulf of ages ago; and a future which is nothing. Which we must not think about. Or speak about. We make each day out of nothing. It is like leaning into space, blindfold. We are powerless to do anything else.”

Well, not a quick read for me. It's the too-much-information-and-nothing-really-happens kind of book, somehow dense, with an elegant prose. Although it was entertaining enough to keep me going after the first drowsy third; by that time I had already grown some empathy towards Hobes and the mistery surrounding the “Effect”. I liked how he tries to find answers from a scientific point of view and how he manages to keep sanity in a world where the line to insanity grows thin by the day.

It won't be on my best apocalyptic reads but would definitely recommend it for the followers of the genre.