I love all kind of apocalyptic and dystopian stories and of course “The Walk” piqued my interest when I read the description. At first we meet a very unsympathetic protagonist. A selfish, weepy prick who – which is understandable to a certain degree – seeks to not get into any further trouble in the city that became a nightmare after the earthquake and as he wanders the streets to get home to his wife. Very soon there is more about it than just the journey home. I figured out the “plot twist” a whole while before it was actually revealed to the reader but it still was a moment of silent contemplation. I liked the idea (and can’t say more about it here without any major spoilers). It was not quite what I expected when I bought the book, but I enjoyed reading it. There were some rather comical and yet bizarre scenes in it, that as odd as they may have seemed, they could actually happen exactly int he way Lee Goldberg wrote them, because humans are always acting predictably the same in the face of such radical events.