oof i'm so glad to be done with this...it was a slog

this book contained three storylines, each in a different time period:
1. 18th century: a guy and his brother are traveling through America while it's being settled, planting apple trees, hoping people will pay for them when they rock up years later and announce it was them who planted the apple trees in that area. i was nodding along to that story when suddenly that guy's HOOVES got mentioned, and it turned out he's randomly a faun...don't even ask. both he and his brother are struggling with his non-human identity.
2. some point in the near-ish future: climate change is raging, conditions are dire, plant-life and animals are struggling. the head of an agricultural super corporation is here to draw profit from the situation and possibly try to rebuild earth according to her imaginations, while her old lover/collaborator and his band of rebels are trying to stop her.
3. far future: everyone is dead more or less, a futuristic life form is still kicking though and driving around in a glass bubble observing the destruction of the earth which seems to be in another ice age at that point.

it had a lot to say about the human handling of nature & wilderness, about striving for too much control over nature and about the ruin (-> climate change, destruction of wildlife) that brings. I'm really interested in books with these themes. this book in particular though completely lost me. it was overwritten for one thing, none of the characters were speaking to me, and what i couldn't deal with at all, and didn't see the point of, was the inclusion of elements of Greek mythology (the faun, the three furies, Orpheus' head - what?). maybe a deeper knowledge of Greek mythology is required to get what the author meant to say with that.

1 star because i sadly didn't enjoy this book at all