bailedI made it 84 pages into this book, but I‘ve decided to bail. I loved Grasshopper Jungle, but the sequel doesn‘t have the same energy as the first book. This one isn‘t weird enough. Also the author mimics Kurt Vonnegut to the point where it hurt me. 🤮
pick16 years after the army of Unstoppable Creatures laid waste to the world, life goes on as it ever did in Eden, the underground bunker Austin, Robby & a handful of other people escaped into. Arek has only know life in Eden but he knows there has to be more & when his dads go missing, he decides to go looking for them. Just like Grasshopper Jungle, this book is fantastic & ridiculous & heartfelt & a heck of an adventure. Smith never disappoints.
It is time to return to whatever remains of Ealing Iowa, after an army of six foot-tall praying mantises rampaged and destroyed everything in their path, and see what has become of the world. Excited to read the sequel to Grasshopper Jungle.
#bookmail! Released today! I can‘t wait to start it! #keepYAweird
Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole | 
