The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

 

So, this is a book of apocalyptic fiction. The apocalypse here is kinda ludicrous, well past my own limits for suspension of disbelief; the writing otherwise is actually quite good: the pacing and the characterizations are excellently handled and acute, the authorial voice is just laden with neat turns of phrase, I kept reading well past the point where I'd given up on what the novel was trying to do because so much of the writing was so fun. This is Book One of a series, though, and the writing was not fun enough to make me want to read more.