A review by wingedcreature
American War by Omar El Akkad

3.0

I really liked this book at the beginning, and it was really interesting.  But then it lost steam, and I lost interest by the end of the book.  Like The Handmaid's Tale, the future we see in American War is one I can picture easily.  You do get a good look at what a modern war would look like, and it's interesting that climate change is what triggers the issues between north and south.  I would have it expected it to be over something else, women's reproductive rights, LGBT rights or something involving religion.  I know it's terrible to make an assumption like that, but I do like that climate change is what triggers because it is different than what you might expect.   I felt like a lot of things weren't really explained or addressed, and it felt like something was missing regarding the use of fossil fuels.  I don't know if maybe Sarat's perspective really limits what we know, since she was 6 when war broke out, but a little more broad of a picture would have been nice.  American War gets 3 stars.