Book Review: INSURRECTION by Ruth Anna Evans

Woke up early because I'm a night shifter so my sleep schedule is always out of whack. Instead of fighting insomnia, I decided to take advantage of it for a change and get in some long overdue reading. "Insurrection" by Ruth Anna Evans has been on my TBR list for awhile and while this isn't the kind of story you enjoy, it's definitely one you will never forget. Beautifully written, compelling, heart wrenching, and horrifying because it could be real, this story is brutal, bleak, and impossible to put down. You know the ending even before it begins, but cling to the hope that you're wrong, that compassion and basic human decency might somehow prevail even in the sorts of nightmarish circumstances Evans depicts. This is powerful stuff, with shades of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," only without the glimmer of hope for humanity's redemption in the end.

Available here.