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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
dark
inspiring
mysterious
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
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If anything the 15yo girl in this book is written TOO well, such that she annoys me like a real 15yo. It took me awhile to warm up to all of the characters and understand where the author was going, but about 1/3 of the way through I started to love it! How much do we have to sacrifice and give to change/save the world? When is enough enough?
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads Giveaway!
I'm not much of a science fiction fan, but this sci-fi /dystopian/ thriller /family drama mashup really worked for me, after taking a bit for me to really get into it.
This book is set in a future where the human race has made it through the climate crisis and has achieved zero net emissions. The author expertly uses the family at the center of the novel that has played an important role in the transition to ask important questions that really made me think. He does a great job of showing different viewpoints without giving any easy answers. I thought this was really well done and an impressive debut novel.
I'm not much of a science fiction fan, but this sci-fi /dystopian/ thriller /family drama mashup really worked for me, after taking a bit for me to really get into it.
This book is set in a future where the human race has made it through the climate crisis and has achieved zero net emissions. The author expertly uses the family at the center of the novel that has played an important role in the transition to ask important questions that really made me think. He does a great job of showing different viewpoints without giving any easy answers. I thought this was really well done and an impressive debut novel.
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
This is a post-climate-disaster books that looks at what the world might be like if we put forth a huge effort at the last minute: The Transition. It focuses on a family formed by two heroes of the Transition. I had a hard time connecting with one of them, but I realized that we don’t get any POV chapters from that character, just the other two. An interesting choice that I think makes the narrative stronger.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
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:
Yes
4/5 🌟
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" 'We don’t get to choose which battles we’re born into,' she says. 'The only thing we get is to choose what we'll do. Will we join the fight? Or will we turn our backs?' "
"I’m telling you my dude, helping is the only thing that helps. Be a part of a team. It’s the most human thing we could do. It’s in our DNA."
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The Great Transition is all about a very real, quite-possible future earth has due to climate change. A future in which humans' polluting ways has created tons of wildfires and torrential storms causing everyone to have to band together to form "troops" of a sort to fight it and win back the use of the earth(what was left of it anyway) and then rebuild what was lost. It's also about the generation after "the great transition" and children are learning about all they went through and people are getting complacent again and a small, secret group of people try to make sure the climate crisis doesn't happen again.
It's very relevant in today's world. It is imaginative and a good storyline about those who were just born into this crazy crisis world and the generation before that saw the before, during and after of the great transition and appreciate things all the more.
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" 'We don’t get to choose which battles we’re born into,' she says. 'The only thing we get is to choose what we'll do. Will we join the fight? Or will we turn our backs?' "
"I’m telling you my dude, helping is the only thing that helps. Be a part of a team. It’s the most human thing we could do. It’s in our DNA."
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The Great Transition is all about a very real, quite-possible future earth has due to climate change. A future in which humans' polluting ways has created tons of wildfires and torrential storms causing everyone to have to band together to form "troops" of a sort to fight it and win back the use of the earth(what was left of it anyway) and then rebuild what was lost. It's also about the generation after "the great transition" and children are learning about all they went through and people are getting complacent again and a small, secret group of people try to make sure the climate crisis doesn't happen again.
It's very relevant in today's world. It is imaginative and a good storyline about those who were just born into this crazy crisis world and the generation before that saw the before, during and after of the great transition and appreciate things all the more.