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Afterland is an okay dystopian story. Somewhat of a rehash of the graphic novel series Y: The Last Man. How much knowledge Beukes had of that story or if she was influenced by it at all, I cannot say. But it is the same basic idea and premise. A virus wipes out all (or most) men and this is the aftermath as women inherit the earth. I enjoyed the graphic novel story a bit better, but this one will serve anyone looking for a dystopian fix.

I have read a couple of Beukes previous novels (The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters) and enjoyed them. This one was not really anything like them. You know when you read a certain author and they have a certain “feel�� to their writing to the point that you could almost guess the author without even being told who wrote it? I could not sense any similarities here. I don’t think that is a bad thing �� I applaud any author can successfully write in many different “voices��.

This was another book that I listened to with my wife during our evening Couch Time after the kids have gone to bed. In previous reviews where I have mentioned it, some of the comments were that people love hearing about our couch time �� so this mention is for you! 😊 However, while we tend to have similar responses to the books we listen to, I think she enjoyed this one quite a bit more than I did. So, perhaps take my lukewarm reception with a grain of salt �� your experience with it might be more like hers.