This was SUCH a fascinating concept and the more intimate look at the lives of the parents affected was a nice change of pace from the often glossed over outbreak stories you typically see, but I just wasn't blown away by it like I thought I would be. It was a bit plodding, and I didn't feel invested enough in the characters to compensate for the slowness.

📚Full review on my blog - link in the description!

"She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this."