A review by pfwhitman
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This book dives into climate change and how we are ruining the earth but tells it through an interesting lens. In a falling apart Toronto, real estate developers are squeezing the city and their tenants for all they are worth and paying a heavy price in real human lives to accomplish that. Adding to it is a tech company digitizing our every movement and creating a police state. There is no chance for a real life pinned between the two. But the earth rejects both of those and a infection adds a third element to the mix destroying and decaying everything around it. The developers want to use it to their advantage while not understanding it and the tech company claims to be on our side but only because they have no idea what's going on. This premise has all the potential in the world but the characters are just completely uninteresting. It's told in a neat way, every character is a tenant in the tallest building in the city ignoring the decay until it kills them but they aren't doing enough to keep me intrigued.