This book is audacious, bold, devastating and blew me away in its terrifying plausibility and sheer brilliance. Yet you would never know you’re reading a book set in the future, so don’t go away thinking that this is just another post-apocalyptic novel. This novel imagines an America where a second American Civil War has broken out and a devastating plague has ravished the country. I’m getting ahead of myself…Īmerican War begins in 2074 and moves on in time from there. Not because it’s a horror novel, but because everything about it is so harrowing and plausible, and it’s all going on right now in the world we live in. It engaged and interested me, but it absolutely terrified me. This is a book that utterly floors you and affected me in a way that a book hasn’t done for a very long time, if ever. Last piece I wrote for the Goldsboro blog I talked about one of my very favourite books this year, and this time I’m going to tell you about one of the others ( You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood falls into the same category as this book I’m about to talk of, along with My Absolute Darling).Īmerican War by Omar El Akkad is quite simply superb.
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