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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I almost couldn't make it threw the book. All the lead characters speak with the same voice. "July says defiantly" with zero description of vision as to what defiantly is. Zero character growth, no research of climate change or how it would go about, just a crazy "feminist" and extremely unemotional and unconnected women. Bones were okay. Pregnancy troup overused.
i really enjoyed this!! it certainly reads like a YA book, which i’m fine with. i didn’t love all the buzzwords but the concept was interesting enough for me to move past what annoyed me. it started off so strong, and got a bit repetitive and drawn out after the first half. that being said, i couldn’t wait to get home and read this each day. for anyone that loved the hunger games or whatever dystopian shit when you were younger, this is such a great queer & modern version of that. it is however extremely realistic and did make me cry because we’re like 10 years out from this being reality. anyway, highly recommend!
Started off SO STRONG, gripping premise, a lot of queer characters/concepts, but starts unraveling in the middle - never digs deep enough for me or gets nuanced, feels
YA, also the ending is like a slow fade out to nothing - how is Ava going to survive traveling north and why the hell is Orchid spontaneously traveling south?? Does she think she could get into the biodome bc there were outside locks when she built it 25 years ago, and willing to destroy her life for it?? Also in the biodome owners meetings they talked about sexual assault and rape as endemic issues - is that the environment July and the rest are being put in?? Left me with a lot more questions, a bummer ending to a very cool concept!
YA, also the ending is like a slow fade out to nothing - how is Ava going to survive traveling north and why the hell is Orchid spontaneously traveling south?? Does she think she could get into the biodome bc there were outside locks when she built it 25 years ago, and willing to destroy her life for it?? Also in the biodome owners meetings they talked about sexual assault and rape as endemic issues - is that the environment July and the rest are being put in?? Left me with a lot more questions, a bummer ending to a very cool concept!
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed the plot beats but it definitely felt like YA with how heavy handed and repetitive some of the themes were
Thanks to St. Martin’s Press via Goodreads for the ARC. I enjoyed this novel. As speculative dystopian fiction, there are a lot of broad themes and granular details which are very plausible. (The book was written before “Canadian wildfires” were a cause for alarm, but here we are in a new normal which all seems very quaint when considering what the world looks like in the 2050s.)
I have some notes on the type, which I will share when I’m more awake.
I have some notes on the type, which I will share when I’m more awake.
Is this supposed to be satire? It's one buzzword after another, to the point that I can't take it seriously.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
tense
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:
No