Fourteen Days

A nice premise - strangers in lockdown in the same apartment building, gathering on the roof and exchanging stories. Each character written by a different (unknown until the end) author. I'm a huge Margaret Atwood fan so I was really looking forward to this one. But the stories were too disjointed and mostly uninteresting. I only started enjoying it in the last two chapters, where there is a little development in the plot and a twist.

Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and written by 36 authors under the auspices of the Authors Guild, is the first Covid 19 book I have read. Until now, I haven’t been able to read any of the books I’ve seen reviewed that take place during Covid lockdowns. What got me this time was, first, authors I trust to be thoughtful and original and, second, that this book uses a similar structure to one of the great plague novels of Western history, The Decameron. A Covid book in which the characters escape their circumstances through stories? I can get on board with that...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.