powerful start, followed by many hours of drivel

The first 30 minutes should have been a short story. The opening is excellent. Emotional and powerful. But it’s all downhill from there.

Speculative fiction requires the author to take some liberties with reality, but this author doesn’t seem to understand anything about anything.

The book devolves into a mixture of endless preaching of an inconsistent ideology and worthless filler. Like Mary’s romance that is tacked on in the final hours and has nothing to do with anything?!? Its like the author had a quota of pages to fill.

I’m extra angry because I feel like this book needs to be written. I WANT TO READ THE BOOK ABOUT HOW THE WORLD GETS THROUGH THE CLIMATE CRISIS!! But this book isn’t it!