Road Out of Winter by Alison StineMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
My reading interests sometimes gravitate towards the post-apocalyptic or dystopian types of books. Unfortunately, this one didn’t grab me as a good entry in the genre. The beginning of the book seemed solid enough. But as the story progressed it weakened for me.
The book is slow paced. When the characters are on the road although they seemed to be driving forever they didn’t get far. They story really bogged down here and took up nearly the rest of the book. The writing felt misleading. How fast were they going, or how often did they stop for gas? Maybe the small details aren’t needed but at times it felt like weeks and other days, it was very unclear, but certainly they should be going somewhere, unless it was in circles.
This was one of the areas that pulled me out of the story. The story wasn’t linear, it would look back to her friend or her mom and boyfriend, how thing used to be. Some of that expanded as we moved through the story but then other situations started to appear that felt like they were convenient for this novel, but not true to what the character development. I don’t want to give spoilers, but it didn’t ring fully true for me.
It got to the point where I did want the book to end and stopped caring what happened to our main characters. Yet I feel like it wasn’t a horribly written book, just not as good as it could have been. There’s a lot of potential that didn’t quite work out well.
One the bright side, if you read this during the heat it may help you feel cooler as this world is frozen over.
Book rating 2.5 stars, rounded up for the strong beginning and atmosphere.
Thanks to Harlequin/MIRA and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
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