Jeremiah Donaldson

For a novella, Jeremiah (was a bullfrog) Donaldson does a credible job delivering a full story. Ott and Ren are the classic pair of post-apocalyptic pals: the former a physical brute interested in food and women, the latter a smaller, cerebral type, guiding the pair. Their car breaks down in Vancouver, which is a polluted wasteland, and in order to obtain the necessary caulking for repairs, they must travel over poisoned water to Vancouver Island, now populated by cannibals, from where nobody has ever returned. Lots of mayhem, intervened by humor. Male teenagers would like this. I was confused twice by story characters suddenly appearing whom did not seem to be in the present situation.… (meer)