Book description
New York Times Bestseller: A young girl’s visions offer the last hope in a postapocalyptic wasteland in this “grand and disturbing adventure” (Dean Koontz).
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Swan is a nine-year-old Kansas girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next…
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2 authors picked Swan Song as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
To say Swan Song is an excellent book is a severe understatement. Simply put, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I put it right up there in my pantheon of the best of the best alongside Dune and the series A Song of Ice and Fire and Arc of a Scythe.
The easiest way to pitch Swan Song is to say it's like Stephen King's The Stand, only better and not just by a little bit. It also reminds me of Chuck Wendig's novels Wanderers and Wayward, but again, several orders of magnitude better.
I…
Saving the best for last. This was published after and said to be inspired by Stephen King’s The Stand, but I feel it far surpasses it. This book has the same scenario of a desolate end of everything with the remaining humans in a fight of good versus evil, but in this book, I feel the characters are more believable. The evil ones are despicable, and the good ones are likable. Especially Swan, whose innocence shines from the page.
From Daniel's list on the end of the world and being the last person on earth.
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