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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
sad
tense
medium-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
“What is magic but science that is not yet understood;
what is science but magic with an explanation?”
what is science but magic with an explanation?”
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
SOME SPOILERS BELOW
I really didn't have any expectations about this book, but am still a bit blown away.
At its core, this book is a mixture of eco/environmental fiction mixed with some futuristic/dystopia, but not in the way you might expect. The premise of this story is unique, and that in itself is notable as it seems so rare these days. If you're anti-science or a climate-change-denier, you should either step away because you'll hate this book, OR you should read it as fast as you can so you can learn how wrong you are.
This story is powerful, frightening, devastating, and emotional. If you aren't a little scared reading this, you probably aren't paying attention to the not-so-subtle references to how real this scenario is. What a horrifying look at what will very likely happen if we, and our governments, don't do something about climate change.
Any good story is made up of good characters, and the author has written some interesting ones. She also has a lovely and compelling way of weaving the tale and describing the changing world. The different sections of the book are titled Power, Water, Light, and Time, and the chapters within each section revolve creatively around those themes. Sometimes the connection is so subtle, you have to just grin and give the author credit for how it all ties in.
There were a few things I didn't love about this book, which kept me from giving it 5 stars:
1. In the first section of the book, the dialogue was a bit stunted as some of the characters didn't use contractions in their speech, and that felt/sounded odd. It seemed to get better as the time went on, though.
2. I really wish we were given more explanation for what Wanda's "lights" really were. But maybe that's one of those things we just have to suspend disbelief over, and take at face value.
3. Why weren't we told how Phyllis died? We can guess, but for someone so influential to Wanda and pivotal in the story, having no closure in that regard was a miss.
4. There was so much detail in the first three sections of the book, and almost none in the final section. I wanted to know more about what happened once Wanda joined Bird Dog's 'tribe'. How did the relationship between the two of them evolve? How did they survive living in the treetops with increasingly bad hurricanes, with the food and water sources changing, with any potential human threats? How did they create a community that worked democratically? Did Wanda ever see Lucas again? So many unanswered questions.
Overall this is a fascinating, heartbreaking, compelling story that really makes you think about the future of this planet and our place on it.
I really didn't have any expectations about this book, but am still a bit blown away.
At its core, this book is a mixture of eco/environmental fiction mixed with some futuristic/dystopia, but not in the way you might expect. The premise of this story is unique, and that in itself is notable as it seems so rare these days. If you're anti-science or a climate-change-denier, you should either step away because you'll hate this book, OR you should read it as fast as you can so you can learn how wrong you are.
This story is powerful, frightening, devastating, and emotional. If you aren't a little scared reading this, you probably aren't paying attention to the not-so-subtle references to how real this scenario is. What a horrifying look at what will very likely happen if we, and our governments, don't do something about climate change.
Any good story is made up of good characters, and the author has written some interesting ones. She also has a lovely and compelling way of weaving the tale and describing the changing world. The different sections of the book are titled Power, Water, Light, and Time, and the chapters within each section revolve creatively around those themes. Sometimes the connection is so subtle, you have to just grin and give the author credit for how it all ties in.
There were a few things I didn't love about this book, which kept me from giving it 5 stars:
1. In the first section of the book, the dialogue was a bit stunted as some of the characters didn't use contractions in their speech, and that felt/sounded odd. It seemed to get better as the time went on, though.
2. I really wish we were given more explanation for what Wanda's "lights" really were. But maybe that's one of those things we just have to suspend disbelief over, and take at face value.
3. Why weren't we told how Phyllis died? We can guess, but for someone so influential to Wanda and pivotal in the story, having no closure in that regard was a miss.
4. There was so much detail in the first three sections of the book, and almost none in the final section. I wanted to know more about what happened once Wanda joined Bird Dog's 'tribe'. How did the relationship between the two of them evolve? How did they survive living in the treetops with increasingly bad hurricanes, with the food and water sources changing, with any potential human threats? How did they create a community that worked democratically? Did Wanda ever see Lucas again? So many unanswered questions.
Overall this is a fascinating, heartbreaking, compelling story that really makes you think about the future of this planet and our place on it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-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:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
This book was fascinating and a bit terrifying, it was great. It’s beautifully written and very vivid. I think the hurricanes would’ve continued in severity and they stop mentioning them for the most part I liked the layers and how they’d loop back and tie up Lucas, Phyllis, and Frida.
adventurous
challenging
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-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
Florida is taking herself back. Its unsettling and also beautiful & hopeful. apocalyptic with shades of magic? Or shades of evolution? Our mistake as humans was thinking that since we were “better” than trees, snakes, alligators, microscopic life etc. we could never be the animals that would go extinct…well… the Light Pirate shows the flaw in that thinking & highlights sovereignty and majesty of earth as we know her. Wow what a powerful read 4.25 stars rounded up ⭐️. The writing is exquisite and poetic. Things man made are described using a nature metaphor and natural things with “human like” metaphors
“Wes is scraggly, tall and thin like an adolescent pine tree”
“The big coconut palm hanging over the yard sways... its trunk swings out over the lawn as if the wild is reaching for the house with those big fingerlike fronds.” To create a oneness between everything living on earth, we all will go through the future together.
“Wes is scraggly, tall and thin like an adolescent pine tree”
“The big coconut palm hanging over the yard sways... its trunk swings out over the lawn as if the wild is reaching for the house with those big fingerlike fronds.” To create a oneness between everything living on earth, we all will go through the future together.