Easily one of the best post-apocalyptic stories I’ve consumed. That goes for books, shows, and movies.

While reading ‘The Book of The Unnamed Midwife’ I was reminded heavily of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, the book, not the show. However, there was something about this book that just hit differently. It was disturbing and raw and a hard read but it was enthralling and near impossible to put this book down. I would recommend this to everyone but it is heavily triggering.

The Book of The Unnamed Midwife does something that most post-apocalyptic stories forget about and that is that it recognizes and really focuses on connection. That there was a life before and that there was and is still desire and hope. People are still people after the world we know ends. The story puts you through a rollercoaster of emotions of horror, terror, sadness, and some hope, and even as you read the horrors of the strong controlling the weak in a lawless society it’s hard to not hope that something good might happen.

I can’t wait to read the next two books but I’m going to have to wait a while because this was heavy.