A review by cmarcatili
Clade by James Bradley

3.0

Quite a good read thematically. An interesting reminder that despite all that is coming for us as a species in the wake of climate change, this world and this universe is larger than just us.

What mostly lets this book down is the overly expositional style of a great deal of the novel. It's particularly a problem in the first chapter, but the need of the author to explain each character's inner motivations really bogs down the flow of the storytelling.

In a way it also tries to accomplish too much in too little a space of time. Survival in a time of serious climate change is the central focus, but
Spoiler a global pandemic and the question of life beyond Earth also show up.