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Title: In a Perfect World
Author: Laura Kasischke
Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 28 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
This is the way the world ends....
It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn - handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three - chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak of the Phoenix flu, passengers had become even more difficult and nervous, and a life of constant travel had grown harder.) She could move into Mark Dorn's precious log cabin and help him raise his three beautiful children. But fairy tales aren't like marriage. Or motherhood.
With Mark almost always gone, Jiselle finds herself alone, and lonely. She suspects that Mark's daughters hate her. And the Phoenix flu, which Jiselle had thought of as a passing hysteria (when she had thought of it at all), well...it turns out that the Phoenix flu will change everything for Jiselle, for her new family, and for the life she thought she had chosen.
Critic Reviews:
"Kasischke's penchant for disconcerting but absorbing fiction is on display, as is her facility with language. Startling, sometimes violent images combine with strikingly dispassionate narration to create a fictional world where terror, beauty and chaos walk hand in hand." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
I was promised an apocalypse novel!
A saintly stepmother begins caring for her husband's 3 rotten teenager children right before a slow apocalypse begins. Her one-dimensional, Mother-Theresa-like good nature lasts and lasts for the entire book, despite having a nasty crone mother, her neighbor's wife being a cheating slut, and her new husband basically abandoning her with his 3 spoiled children to raise.
The apocalypse details that I read for were not there until maybe the last 1/10th of this novel, and it was in no way worth reading through the rest of this unrealistic tale of the Mother Theresa of the Apocalypse who never did one selfish thing ever in her whole life to get to them.
fabulous story
powerful and gripping. a slowly unspooling tragedy. a swan song perhaps for a way of living that cannot last.
Waste of money
What would have made In a Perfect World better?
Its missing a story. In full disclosure I didn't finish the book. I don't know how it ends and honestly don't care. Its a bad sign when you can skip two chapters and don't miss anything in the story. Slow story that droned on and on with pointless side notes. Shallow characters with no development.
Has In a Perfect World turned you off from other books in this genre?
No. This should not be in the post apocalyptic genre. The first 90% of the book barely talks about the epidemic and is totally unrealistic in how the public would respond (always plenty of food at the store and the electricity always comes back on, no riots or looters). I couldn't bring myself to finish the last 45 minutes of the audio book. Just wasn't worth my time.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No.
Worth listening to again and again!
Having listened to this audiobook at least five times, I feel I have a pretty solid viewpoint on it. I LOVE this book. It isn't a linear time line, which usually confuses the listener, but for some reason really works in the story.
