pickThe bleakness of this post-apocalypse story is harrowing in parts, but the horror and brutality is ameliorated by the strong bonds of love between the main characters, shown in their variety by the shifting focus of first-person points of view.
I'm left with a comedown feeling of fragile crystalline sadness that will sit with me for a while. 4⭐
TW for violence and rape, not graphically described but affecting as told in first person.
How was it I had the same thoughts, even after the whole ordeal of risking our lives to escape Korea?... the global calamity had changed neither my thought process nor my concerns...
"I had happened to hear the midnight news in bed. It was a Monday. They said a strange virus was spreading in a distant country, that the virus would mutate with every new vaccine...The next day, news of the virus took wind on every street. But it'll be fine soon. That was what was believed. Because the disaster is in a distant country. Because modern medicine and the government will protect us."
pickThis dystopia, post-apocalyptic novel originally written in Korean is the first queer novel to be translated into English. Written before COVID-19, this one feels so eerily real. Reminiscent of THE ROAD, this one is grim and bleak, but still hopeful.
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To the Warm Horizon | 
