dCompleted: June 14, 2025
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Words for which I sought help:
exophthalmic -- having or characterized by protruding eyes
mendacity -- untruthfulness, lying
scrim -- something that conceals or obscures something else
timbales -- shallow single-headed drums with metal casing
Review:
I think that I just don't like Boyle's writing style. This book is OK, the characters are a bit flat and the plot is pretty thin. Boyle does a good job of painting a picture of a world that has been crushed by climate change and the weird ways that people adjust to living in the new normal. The foreshadowing is clunky and the way the story is put together just rubs me the wrong way. It is an OK story, but when I compare it to something like The Overstory (which is a very similar tale) all the holes in this telling become readily apparent.
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