Book description
"Until the day humanity falls."
In the year 2020, Earth's magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly…
Why read it?
1 author picked Little Mushroom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don’t usually read post-apocalyptic stories, as I tend to find them too dreary and sad for my taste.
But I heard too many good things about Little Mushroom to not give it a chance, and I am so glad I did. Despite the worryingly high body-count and literal end-of-days plot, the story is so full of hope and love for the future of humanity that I actually felt uplifted by the end of it.
I read this book and its sequel in a ridiculously short amount of time, losing sleep to finish them, and even now months after finally…
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