Children of the End - Sabra Patni | Book Review

A dystopian read after a really long time! 

At a Glance:  

• Title - Children of the End
• Author - Sabra Patni
• Pages - 193
• Publishers - The Write Order Publications
• Format - Paperback / Kindle
• Publication date - 1 Jan 2022

Blurb: 

Imagine living in a world where every student in every grade has the same last name. If that's not concerning enough, imagine living in a world that has stopped growing, Literally! No leaves on trees, no birds and bees And no fishes in the oceans and the seas The world is dying and the worst hit is the human race where, except a few in the closed community of Locklustre, the entire population has been rendered sterile. Has the planet finally stood up against the tyranny of humans... or is there more to it than meets the eye? Ride this riveting tale that spans generations and geographies. A race against time to save the human race. Or is it already the end?

My Review:

The story starts in the year 2040 with birth at Locklustre which is considered to be a miracle after a great catastrophe had rendered the planet infertile! Forward to the year 2058, Prof Solomon and his class discuss the reason and background which led to the stopping of the human race from multiplying!

Reading through the chapters we see that the human race is on the road to extinction and it is being saved by the Bairns Foundation that selects individuals who are free of any genetic defects and the children born out of their union are superior in all sorts!

Though this comes about as a dystopian tale, when we dive into the inner meaning of the storyline, we realize that the things mentioned in the book are likely to happen if man doesn’t take a serious effort to control the population explosion and make changes to stop adverse effect it has on Mother Earth.

Is it Wardin pharmaceuticals or Bairn Alliance that responsible for the catastrophe and why was it caused? And by the end of the book, we will get an insight into why the humans were not being able to procreate and who / what was the reason for this.

The book moves through countries/areas to see how or what can be done for the survival of the human race and how the people are coping after the catastrophe. The privileges for the Bairns and the wrong notion spread about the Shrikies tell us about the inequality in society.

The language is simple and easy to follow but the storyline does go back and forth sometimes. The background for the characters are well developed and most of them are very likable except for Mama Bairn [who is the all-controlling leader of the Bairn Foundation or is she doing the world a favor??] The cover depicts the core of the story.

In all, a good book for readers who are into the Dystopian genre, and even otherwise, this book will be like an eye-opener to check what might go wrong in the coming years when there is a population explosion and some drug company decides to meddle with the society!

About the Author :

Sabra Patni is a first-generation author, singer-songwriter and composer living in the bustling city of Mumbai, India with her husband and daughter. She has been writing from an early age but it was only after the birth of her daughter that she decided to share her passion with the world. Having travelled across the globe, she uses her experiences to spin tales that cross boundaries and geographies. She intersperses real-life events into her stories and stretches the human imagination to accept the unimaginable. Influenced by apolcalyptic themes she believes in the phoenix that rises in the aftermath of every calamitous world event. Her stories portray strong characters that display the strength of the human resolve in times of great distress.

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