Since The Stand is one of my favourite books, I really wanted to like this much more than I actually did. It started off wonderfully but then just...got boring. I'm okay with the gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction, I enjoyed a lot of the philosophical ramblings, but it got veryyy tedious about halfway through and never picked up. I was half-skimming by the last few pages, just to finish it.

And like a couple of other reviewers, I got a bit tired of the! constant! exclamation! marks! in conversations.