I wanted to like this so bad but it was just a slog.

I typically enjoy apocalypse fiction a lot. I don't need much to happen or for characters to be likeable. I just need it to be interesting. Or for some ideas to be explored. Some substance. Something.

And good writing doesn't hurt either.

The dog stars basically lacked everything I was looking for. I couldn't get into it, couldn't stay in it, and was annoyed with basically every character. Events were painfully predictable and every semi interesting moment or encounter was followed by "and then they died". And that bleakness could have been interesting had things been detailed even half as much detail as the mechanics of flying a small plane were. Wow did we hear a lot about flying a small plane.

The writing style was also fragmented and not-quite-experimental in a way that I largely found jarring. All in all, I didn't enjoy my reading experience and didn't connect with the book.

I would really only recommend this if you're really into planes and guns and lusting after the first flesh-and-blood healthy-ish woman you've seen in a decade.

More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/sS8eromz-Ko