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Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
3.0

Neat book (well, books, I suppose, as I read the first book in the series immediately beforehand, so they kind of meld together into a single entity in my brain). I liked it, but I didn't entirely get into it; while the story was good (though more for the exploration of the crumbling society than for the noir mystery that drives the plot), I'm a bit over-apocalypsed at the moment. Also, the book is written with a first-person present tense point of view, and while not as jarring as some other books I've read that are written this way (like the Hunger Games series), it's a style I've always found a little odd, and not my favorite. So, good marks for ideas and worldbuilding (or world destroying, I suppose), minus a few points for style and gloominess.