murrderdith's reviews
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I occasionally hated both of the women at the center of this novel in much the same way that I have occasionally hated the women the women in this novel reminded me of (myself included.) But that's probably what made it feel like an honest depiction of two life-long friends.

When Sarah Maclean puts out a book, I'm going to read it ASAP (even if I'd planned on taking a break from romance novels.)

As always, her heroine asserts her agency in a time and place that would much rather she not and her hero is masculine without being toxic. The Regency take on the sex tape was clever. Maclean continues to be the romance writer I recommend to non-romance readers.

Excellent premise--using the horror genre as a lens through which to examine the unknowability of planet that sometimes seems to genuinely want us gone. It's a good primer climate change as horror.

That said, Thacker seems to lose that through line in a few sections. It's weird to say that such a short book could use tightening.

Main take away? We really need to stop altering the land in catastrophic ways. It has a habit of biting back.

Audible. Read by the author.

Full disclosure: I really like was Noah's been doing with The Daily Show. This memoir offers a means of illuminating his occasional detached perspective on American politics (that I assume bothers some viewers. I like it. I don't necessarily need older men yelling at me through a screen to understand what's ludicrous about a situation.)

We're fucked.