I first encountered this book in a giveaway from Bookish First, where i read a sample of the first 100 or so pages. I was intrigued by the concept of a world run by children after a supernova kills everyone over the age of 13 on the planet. The sample ended at the time the adults died.
I received the ARC of the English translation and enjoyed the book through chapter 8. It was an incredible thought experiment about how a world run by children would look.
But then in chapters 9 and 10, the book really lost me. There was a lot of time spent describing detailed war scenes that i just was not interested in. Then the children decide to do something so strange that i just could not understand the reason for it or the outcome of it, because the book ends in the middle of the process and the epilogue doesn’t really explain it either.
Overall, the first 2/3 or so of this book were so interesting that i would still give it four stars, even if you just stop reading at the end of chapter 8. To think that the author initially wrote this book in 1989 is rather mind blowing, and i appreciate the afterword he included with this book.
I received the ARC of the English translation and enjoyed the book through chapter 8. It was an incredible thought experiment about how a world run by children would look.
But then in chapters 9 and 10, the book really lost me. There was a lot of time spent describing detailed war scenes that i just was not interested in. Then the children decide to do something so strange that i just could not understand the reason for it or the outcome of it, because the book ends in the middle of the process and the epilogue doesn’t really explain it either.
Overall, the first 2/3 or so of this book were so interesting that i would still give it four stars, even if you just stop reading at the end of chapter 8. To think that the author initially wrote this book in 1989 is rather mind blowing, and i appreciate the afterword he included with this book.