burning_gelidity 's review for:

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

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Anyone who is afraid of the coming future with climate change and late-stage capitalism closing in on us MUST read this book. It is inspiring. It is set in San Francisco in 2048 in a pseudo-utopia, a communist society in practice without the theory bros and instead led by love. Their city-society is founded on respect and caretaking of the four sacred things: water, earth, fire, and air. The world around them has been ravaged by climate change and war and they’ve been left alone by the christo-fascists in the last 20 years, but that is changing. If you want to see what love, solidarity, hardship and hope through revolution could look like here in the U.S. in the coming future, read this.