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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
The Nuuk part was the best. The waiting for the rest of the book to happen was the worst.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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:
No
Amazing book - one that I believe reflects a potentially positive outcome of the upcoming climate collapse, and I believe some realistic economic requirements as well, woven into a family story, I loved this book.
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
reflective
tense
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:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Reading this book made me feel less liberal because I was definitely a larch sympathizer. It gat a similar same feeling when I listen to Hamilton.
This story world seems likely yet Kristina and Larches relationship seems unlikely. They represent totally opposite sides of thinking and are always fighting. I feel like they should have gotten divorced a long time ago or never even married. I feel like they felt the societal pressure of it all. It also seems like there friend groups did not see eye to eye. I’m surprised they didn’t try and split them up earlier. They both compromised for each other and made each other miserable because their compromises did not align with their personal beliefs.
I’m glad larch got angry at Kristina for living a double life. I was confused why he felt the need to find her so bad. Maybe I have never felt that deep of love for someone. It just seems like they were in a bad place and so I confused why all the sudden he felt compelled.
I also felt so weird about the ending. I feel like the after should have been them reuniting after going into hiding or Emi joining the Phoenix. Not a snap shot of them in hiding. Also I thought the young boy in grief counseling what going to be other boy that was “killed” yet he just gets thrown to show she’s being reckless telling people her old name kinda.
3.5 stars. Love the Cli-Fi premise. Fun world building but it seemed overly preachy (and I’m usually here for that!) Characters’ story wasn’t very interesting, made it hard to stick around for the world-building alone.
Very impressive for a debut novel. This seems like one of those books that all of us should have to read. While following a family in transition and a mother's possible sinister disappearance, this book delves into what happened to our planet and our way of life after we refused to do what was necessary as a species to stop the climate change crisis. It is now 16 years after a generation of people fought for decades in The Great Transition to bring our planet back from the brink of destruction to reach Zero Day. The one repeated theme from the book that will stick with me for the rest of time will be how do we explain to future generations that we didn't come together to stop the practices and people who caused this and should this "destroying class" pay for this with their own lives as their actions caused the deaths of millions.
adventurous
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
fast-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