book review: future home of the living god by louise endrich

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

(no star system)

STORY ✔️

CHARACTERS ✔️

PROSE ✔️

Goodreads rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Synopsis: Evolution is moving backwards, Cedar is pregnant and struggling to protect her baby as she settles in to her own identity.

One-sentence review: All dystopian, world-ending stories always reveal that women are actually the most true and enduring source of power.

Overall storytelling/structure: Told as diary entries and snippets kept to share with her unborn baby.

Writing style/prose: Literary but contemporary with everyday references. 

Characters: Cedar/Mary is so loveable because she says exactly what she is thinking with the perfect level of sass and truth. I want to be like Cedar.

Mood: I mean the world is ending and they are out for pregnant women, so this is not a light read. But the characters are fresh and hopeful, sometimes you forget about the doom.

Books Similar/Read if you like: The Handmaid’s Tale (or any Margaret Atwood),  The Grace Year,  Ruth Ozeki, or other Louise Erdrich novels. 

*This had a 3.4 rating on goodreads so I was hesitant to purchase. Find bookstagrammers and reviewers you trust to evaluate a book. if you don’t like dystopian, or literary fiction, or books without a happy ending, I don’t want you star rating turning me away from the goods!