Ali Shaw: The trees (2016)
488 pages
English language
Published Sept. 27, 2016
The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too. Then he meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah's forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife--and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.
Zaļā pasaka from I.Ziedoņa Krāsainas pasakas but horror, slightly. Also, has probably the most likable unlikable protagonist I've read in a while. I really enjoyed following the journey of the characters in the book. A bit too magical to feel truly post-apo, a bit too post-apo to feel truly fantasy. Really enjoyable listen (as I listened to it on audible).
dnf at 5%
I gave up! I know I said I'd give it like 50 more pages, but I couldn't even manage that. I just had no interest in picking it back up, so I didn't.
