The Last Man by Mary Shelley
As a an avid fan of Romanticism, this book was definitely a ride.Let me start by prefacing that I found the start of the book , to be breathtaking and otherworldly.The ethereal descriptions, the outpouring of emotions, the heartfelt relationships, were so enamouring to me as a reader .I felt bad for our narrator , his family and prince Adrian.Their descent into an apocalyptic world, was distraughting, but not as much as I thought it would be.The big twist,didn't lay such an impact on my psyche.I definitely felt more threatened by the plot of White Noise than this one.I'm aware that they are uncomparable , and standalone novels of different eras ,with differentaudiences in mind.But I couldn't help but adress the similarities. Now back to Mary Shelley, again she had so many things on her plate.Trying to balance the political misfunctionning of her world, a plague , and character development.Those are quite some tasking missions for any writer to take on, let alone ...