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Anne-So Echos de Mots, youth literary blogger and contributor to the reading group "20 Minutes Books", recommends Lou After All: The Battle of Sweetness by Jérôme Leroy, published on January 9, 2020 by Éditions Syros.
His favorite quote:
“Thinking too much about the past is the best way to go through it. "
Why this book?
- Because Lou après Tout is a high-quality French post-apocalyptic trilogy , written with a master's hand by Jérôme Leroy. The third volume, La Bataille de la Douceur , was released on January 9, 2020 by Syros; a good pretext to tell you about the whole series which is, for me, a real gem.
- Because the first volume revealed the reasons for the fall of civilization, causing a feeling of growing uneasiness as the events appeared terribly plausible. Between climate change, pollution peak, abuse of augmented reality and dictatorship that is installed key after key, the reader quickly understands how the end came. Simply. Almost as obvious.
- Because the writing is terribly immersive and the construction of the novel is well thought out and perfectly executed. The story caught me from the very first lines and the fact that events are taking place in France (or what's left of it…) creates an even stronger bond between the characters and the reader.
- Because the bond between Guillaume and Lou is at the same time powerful, pure, obvious and beautiful but also very complex. They are not the only exciting characters, however. All are interesting with their own ideas about the arrival of the Great Collapse or life after the apocalypse.
- Because what Jérôme Leroy describes would probably be very close to the truth if such a catastrophe happened in reality. The author never stops aiming just.
- Because all the ingredients forming this reading (totalitarianism, evolution, survival, fragile psychology, violence, gentleness, love and the scent of death ...) are deliciously addictive and carefully measured.
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The plot. Lou and Guillaume live in an old villa perched on a mountain in French Flanders. Fifteen years after the Great Collapse, they have learned to recognize the dangers and feel that something is approaching. As always, they will have to adapt.
Characters. Guillaume is a thirty-something who left his adolescence in the world before the Collapse; when he had to learn to survive for him but also for Lou, the child he took in. Lou is a young woman who has lived most of her life in a violent, harsh and dangerous world.
Places. The story takes place mainly in the north of what remains of France.
The time. The story begins 15 years after The Great Collapse but is made up of many flashbacks.
The author. Jérôme Leroy is a former French teacher who now devotes himself to writing poetry, short stories or committed novels.
This book was read with pleasure by Anne-So Echos de Mots, blogger specializing in children's and teenage literature. “For me, reading can be as much a personal pleasure in which one runs to take refuge as an excuse to exchange and meet other readers. I am a lover of words always interested in new discoveries. "
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