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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This may be the best book I've ever read and I didn't enjoy any of it. Every page is a kick in the teeth, every plot turn a smack in the head. Do not read this if you're in a bad place mentally. Reading it in the first month of a second Trump term didn't help my headspace either but honestly that fact validated the vision el Akkad articulates so masterfully.
It is a spectacular examination of the relentless and ruthless wheel of war and its cataclysmic destruction of everyone it touches. It articulates the mad, sad, and frustrating turn of radicalization. If I were teaching a college class, this would be mandatory reading for my class.
Read it. Because it's necessary.
It is a spectacular examination of the relentless and ruthless wheel of war and its cataclysmic destruction of everyone it touches. It articulates the mad, sad, and frustrating turn of radicalization. If I were teaching a college class, this would be mandatory reading for my class.
Read it. Because it's necessary.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Heartbreaking, and I pray it's not prophetic.
There are a couple of pretty amazingly-coincidental plot turns, but this one will still be keeping me up tonight.
There are a couple of pretty amazingly-coincidental plot turns, but this one will still be keeping me up tonight.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a look at a near future scenario involving the devastating effects of global warming destroying parts of the South, and a second Civil War revolving around it and the stubborn continued use of fossil fuels and forced environmental policies . Brutal at times, but it captures the effects of fear tactics, manipulation of the civilian population, and world involvement during times of war.
I can’t get a handle on this book. I know an above average amount about the US civil war, and this book is vague on both race and religion. Big whiff on causes for a potential second civil war here imo. However, the writing was great and the depiction of war appropriately horrifying.
A dark war saga. The war is southern states banded together against the northern states, in 2075 - 2090. The author puts climate change and oil availability, against environmental alternatives as the basis for the ongoing. This was a futuristic read, but, in parts, felt almost present day, given the current state of politics in the USA.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I thought the book had an interesting premise, but it was hard to suspend my disbelief because the setting -- both environmental and cultural -- either didn't feel right, or didn't feel developed enough.
While the Mississippi Delta may have been flooded, it seemed like a normal-enough place, with none of the oppressive heat or humidity that one might expect would accompany a radically transformed environment.
And, oddly enough, for a novel that explored the future of North and South in the United States, there was hardly any discussion about racism.
This is a good summer read, but it left me wanting more.
While the Mississippi Delta may have been flooded, it seemed like a normal-enough place, with none of the oppressive heat or humidity that one might expect would accompany a radically transformed environment.
And, oddly enough, for a novel that explored the future of North and South in the United States, there was hardly any discussion about racism.
This is a good summer read, but it left me wanting more.
I wanted to like this book more than I did. Some of the writing was beautiful and at times it also lost my interest. I loved the premise and the well thought out crafting of the dystopian future.