Title: Contrived
Product review: In some undefined apocalypse, every large plant and animal dies except the protagonist, his son and a few other humans that turn to cannibalism to survive.No fish, no birds, no trees. No cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, moss or lichen. But food rots, corpses smell and the heroes get sick. Obviously, bacteria and viruses are alive and kicking. Oh, and a few morel mushrooms made it, to feed our heroes once.In any world where a few humans survive for more than a year, you would at least expect some seeds to make it too. You'd expect insects to thrive. Plant growth would resume soon despite the meager sunshine. But the author doesn't let reality impinge on a comfortable construction of a setting where good and evil are so easy to pit against each other.The novel is a sequence of scenes of sadness and despair only possible because of a very contrived yet simplistic setting. Couldn't enjoy it.
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