Emma's Reviews > Soft Apocalypse

3.5 stars. This was an interesting concept. If world disasters are happening, the economies are failing, how do we know if it’s this time that we can’t recover? How do we know we are not in the middle of the apocalypse right now? This story gives us snapshots of one character’s life over the twenty final-ish years of global catastrophe. He is not completely likeable, but you start to see how, however good a person you are, over time and in these conditions, in order to survive there is some compromise to your humanity.
This really isn’t so much post apocalypse as continuous apocalypse. As a novel, what this means is the pace is slower and less dramatic, although the story is still grim. A thought-provoking read, by far the most likely scenario for End of Times, I imagine.