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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
What will it take to curb climate change, and when will we know we’ve done enough?
Nick Fuller Googins’ vision of the future is bold and brutally honest, but it is above all optimistic. He does not give in to the dystopian tendencies of climate fiction, instead offering a refreshing story that restored my hope in the future much like Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future.” Collective action, creative solutions and decisive policy changes CAN facilitate a transition towards a future with renewable energy and equitable resource distribution. Hope does not equate naïveté; Emi, Kristina and Larch’s respective storylines are steeped in the after effects of climate disasters and the expected resistance towards meaningful change. Still, we make it.
This book’s biggest sin is having Emi’s first NYC pizza be at a Pizza Hut. Otherwise, loved the ride.
“No matter how bad things get, there are always those who will risk personal comforts and freedoms to help strangers.”
Nick Fuller Googins’ vision of the future is bold and brutally honest, but it is above all optimistic. He does not give in to the dystopian tendencies of climate fiction, instead offering a refreshing story that restored my hope in the future much like Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future.” Collective action, creative solutions and decisive policy changes CAN facilitate a transition towards a future with renewable energy and equitable resource distribution. Hope does not equate naïveté; Emi, Kristina and Larch’s respective storylines are steeped in the after effects of climate disasters and the expected resistance towards meaningful change. Still, we make it.
This book’s biggest sin is having Emi’s first NYC pizza be at a Pizza Hut. Otherwise, loved the ride.
“No matter how bad things get, there are always those who will risk personal comforts and freedoms to help strangers.”
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
I feel like I need to make a YA Dystopia category for my Goodreads shelves -- much of the sci fi/fantasy the last 10 years or so seems to fall into that "dystopia" category. This book is essentially a massive effort in world building -- with what we might consider mundane domestic drama overlaid: teenage eating disorder, teenage mental health, adult romance, oh, and essentially a family "witness relocation" program thrown in.
Some of the story of the parents' experiences and history is told from the daughter's perspective in the shape of a family history report to her teacher, doubling down on the third person narrative in a way that adds in some of the dynamics of what parents are comfortable sharing or disclosing to their children.
I wish the characters felt more fully formed -- they all feel a bit flat and thinly drawn. I wish the author had spent more time on the people, it seems like this was a LOT of history and development for a single book. I much preferred AnnaLee Newitz's approach of splitting a book into sections (then, now, later).
Another interesting note - there are nearly no physical descriptions of people in the entire book save for relative size (larger or smaller), the position of a mole or a burn scar, and so on. This is novel and refreshing to me as many books seem to go overboard on physical description of the people in a way that leans heavily on contemporary standards or expectations of beauty. Perhaps this is a way of making the characters more relatable to a wider range of readers? The only non-English language I remember being referenced is Spanish. The concept of US incarceration of Latin American children in concentration camps was something that could bear greater exploration as well.
Some of the story of the parents' experiences and history is told from the daughter's perspective in the shape of a family history report to her teacher, doubling down on the third person narrative in a way that adds in some of the dynamics of what parents are comfortable sharing or disclosing to their children.
I wish the characters felt more fully formed -- they all feel a bit flat and thinly drawn. I wish the author had spent more time on the people, it seems like this was a LOT of history and development for a single book. I much preferred AnnaLee Newitz's approach of splitting a book into sections (then, now, later).
Another interesting note - there are nearly no physical descriptions of people in the entire book save for relative size (larger or smaller), the position of a mole or a burn scar, and so on. This is novel and refreshing to me as many books seem to go overboard on physical description of the people in a way that leans heavily on contemporary standards or expectations of beauty. Perhaps this is a way of making the characters more relatable to a wider range of readers? The only non-English language I remember being referenced is Spanish. The concept of US incarceration of Latin American children in concentration camps was something that could bear greater exploration as well.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
WOW. If you want a book on the environment and seeing the good that we can do to fix it this is for you. If you want to hate then love then hate then love characters, this is for you.
What happens when we take the environment seriously? And how to we change our perception of normal life once we have done everything to save us and the planet?
What happens when we take the environment seriously? And how to we change our perception of normal life once we have done everything to save us and the planet?