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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
tense
slow-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
Loved it! It's not a book I would normally reach for, but it's incredibly thought-provoking. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time after.
I lost interest. I wasn’t invested in any part of the story enough to finish it.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book is an incredible imagining of how climate change might influence society. It was mostly a riveting book with a few slow spots. It deserves high praise for its character portrayals, descriptions of a poisoned and drowned landscape, and a foretelling of cruelty that humans can inflict on each other. This book was written in 2017.
dark
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
This is Omar El Akkad's first book, and it's a hell of an opener. He takes a future second Civil War (that now still feels like it's breathing down the back of your neck) and focuses in on one girl who grows up during it, the horrors of war that she experiences, her eventual radicalization, POW torture she undergoes as a supposed enemy combatant, and her ultimate radicalization down a path that ends up turning what's supposed to be a peace summit into a horrorshow. I love that we mostly see our focus character through other peoples eyes, and especially the way that the last section is framed. Definitely worth your time.
This was a night time read aloud with my hubby and it took a while due to sleep patterns and kids and all that jazz.
But that is in no way a reflection on this book. Which is not content wise an easy read, though style and flow it was easy. This world of just around the corner from now is all too believable, and yet brilliantly told.
Could there be a new civil war here in the US? Are brothers going to fight brothers again? What would that look like? Explore those questions and more in this book.
But that is in no way a reflection on this book. Which is not content wise an easy read, though style and flow it was easy. This world of just around the corner from now is all too believable, and yet brilliantly told.
Could there be a new civil war here in the US? Are brothers going to fight brothers again? What would that look like? Explore those questions and more in this book.
DNF - couldn’t stand any of the characters or the writing style. Great world building though, had potential.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense