![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, Olivia is also one of the least consistent characters I've ever come across. I guess that part where she denied being fed with meat triggered a lot of starving meat-lovers out there. That's one of the coping mechanisms we have at our disposal and to put many unpalatable labels on her just because her psyche dealt with "the end of the world" in a less logical and effective manner than readers expected? That's a simplistic approach. Nonetheless, her attitude can be easily explained: people often stick to old habits and cling to the things that once constituted normalcy to them. Her survival skills indeed suck and I have no idea how she had been surviving on her own for almost half a year. In the post-apocalyptic world, her vegetarian status might seem stupid, irrelevant and even bratty to many. I tried to find a negative review for this book that captures the story's weak points, so I could let it go and not write a review myself (savvy bitch that I am), but all I came across were the complaints about Olivia (h) and her irrelevant first-world problems and I thought huh? that's the worst you can? □Īlthough Olivia is not one of my favorite heroines, far from it, I wouldn't say that the book's major issue was her adamant refusal to eat meat after having been starved for days. ![]() If this hero got paid every time he asked the heroine " what's wrong with you", he'd be richer than Zuckerberg - one of his key personality traits too. ![]()
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