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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
Great sci-fi. Very poignant to what we are doing to the earth every day.
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
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:
No
Impressive new novel from Bradley. It's a climate change novel that progressively moves into the future. I've read a few novels recently that have elements of this, including David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks and Christopher Priest's The Adjacent, but unlike those, this one is set entirely in the future. It's most reminiscent of Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming, with its linked episodes. The science fiction elements are light with the focus on the characters and the catastrophic events alluded to more often than they're directly experienced.
Really loved the story telling. Left me wanting more each time / section (which was very frustrating in the beginning) but a clever way of crafting the book. Beautiful story.
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Decent, quick read about the end of the world. Australian perspective told in stages that skip through time and through generations. Aside from the exposition dump at the start (pretty awful and boring really) and 1 or 2 weak segments this was a good and entertaining read. Also quite realistic but never went into too much detail. End of the world due to climate change and collapse was done more intestingly in The Book of Strange New Things, and the narrative shape of the novel was done better in Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam.