The night a famous Hollywood actor by the name of Arthur Leander died, a flu pandemic kick-started its own life and that was how civilization as we knew it came to an end within a few weeks.
That marks the start of time being labelled Day One; up til Year Twenty, with Kirsten Raymonde, the 8-year-old girl who witnessed Arthur's death on stage, joining a group of travelers called the Traveling Symphony, who have dedicated what remained of their lives to maintaining the arts.
So this book. I went into it without expecting much, in fact I thought it was gonna turned out meh. But we all know books that we always thought was gonna be meh always turned out amazing...
That flu pandemic is crazy. People were catching it just by talking to the infected, who got sick just a few minutes ago by talking to another infected person.
We follow a few "main" characters, and we watch how they survived in the after-civilization, not just from the flu but from their own insanity. The chapters weren't chronological, but I loved how the stories from then and now intertwined.
The characters were real, and their stories of making the roads home, of making an airport a museum; it was all so interesting to read and think about. It did scare me; a world where the kids had never seen a lit up computer screen before; a world where it was impossible to think that such huge machines called airplanes could once fly into the sky.
I gave this a solid 5 stars, I love it so so so much. A little bit thanks to my low expectations of it initially, a little bit thanks to the way it scared me; whatever it is, this was amazing.
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