Wayward by Chuck Wendig
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a book I didn't know I needed. The first one was pretty much an epic post-apoc with tons of great goodies. This one was... different. Still post-apoc in its way, but more focused on the after--be it dealing with cults within your own tribe, handling hate, isolation, or worse, OTHER PEOPLE.

It's kinda obvious that this was a pandemic novel, dealing with all the pandemic things, which was FUNNY because it was supposed to be dealing with the AFTER EFFECTS of a different kind of pandemic.

So what we get is a psychological work-over. A mindfuck of not epic proportions, but a catharsis.


I won't call this a worthy successor of the Wanderers novel. I will call it a good read all on its own, tho. It handles nanotech and AIs in an interesting way, and while not always what I'd like to see in a novel, it at least takes the subject seriously and in a vein that isn't all that usual. (You know what I mean. Everyone has an opinion on AIs now. This one is slightly different. Thank goodness.)


I'm happy to have read it.


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