Review: The Prologue to the Postnuclear Dystopia

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The Prologue to the Postnuclear Dystopia The Prologue to the Postnuclear Dystopia by Dmitry Glukhovsky
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"We didn’t deserve to be saved: many of us regard our survival not as a reward, but as a curse."

Well, that was a 5 minute read and I'm not quite sure why I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 3 stars. It certainly has set the mood to start the series, but it has no plot, it's basically a state of the union address explaining how things are at the start of the series. But I would have thought that all the details provided here would be found in the first book. Perhaps not.

Perhaps the war that caused the nuclear disaster is never mentioned later on? Perhaps the number of survivors, being whittled down from 500,000 to 50,000 individuals is new information?

Since I'm starting here, I'm not sure exactly what value this serves as a prologue and I get more of a "teaser" or "taster" vibe from it. And also, since I'm starting here, I can attest that I am a suitably teased. Now, onto the main course!

"Don’t write us off too soon.  
We’ll keep fighting right to the end.  
To the bitter end."

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