Reviews - The Light Pirate

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The Light Pirate

Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.13 AVERAGE

shannon_white1099's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense 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: Complicated

montana_cole's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

An interesting peek into the future and how we will evolve with our environment.

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intothevolcano's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mschoo's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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: No

oliviadh's review against another edition

5.0

Whew this was depressing and also beautiful and creepy and sad. Basically, what will it look like when the ocean finally reclaims Florida and fire reclaims the rest of the country? Read this one for my climate change book club and even though I work in the sustainability arena, it's good to be reminded of all that we stand to lose and how quickly it could happen. Being terrified and depressed isn't useful at the day-to-day scale, but a little bit of fear can be pretty damn motivating. And also, when the world goes to shit, love and community and beauty will all continue to exist. Remember that, too.

cseefurth's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

w8godot32's review against another edition

5.0

As We Know It, It’s the End of the World – REM (folded over)

Florida is being battered by hurricanes and quickly losing ground to the ocean. Relocation allowances, limited to Miami, have run out. The federal government has announced the entire state’s closure, released back into the wild. There are few places to run as conditions are worsening everywhere. Global warming is no longer just some far away concern– the bills have come due.

Kirby Lowe is an emergency lineman who fought a losing battle to keep everyone’s lights on as he watched his family pay the price for his dedication. A catastrophic storm named Wanda roars up to not only take his young son Flip, but also his wife Frida as she is giving birth to a baby girl. Before dying, Frida insists her baby be named after the storm.

Born of all this chaos, Wanda grows up to witness nearly everyone she knows abandoning the area. One neighbor, Phyllis, takes her under her wing and teaches her the nuts and bolts of survivalism… how to weather the storm when nature grows its harshest. Phyllis is impressed at how well Wanda adapts but she is astounded to see the supernatural connection the girl has with the new emerging ecosystem.

“The Light Pirate” is not a lecture on the evils this world is committing, it is a hopeful imagining of what happens next. We are taken down into what the destruction could look like and then we rise with Wanda to see nature’s new possibilities. Lily Brooks-Dalton has taken a chilly topic and transformed it into an exciting and brilliant book.

Thank you to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for providing an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review. #TheLightPirate #NetGalley