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"Here at the beginning, it must be said the End was on everyone's mind."
Rainey is a guitar player holed up in a small town surviving after climate change works its terrible magic on the world. Society has collapsed, but small towns like Rainey's survive through helping each other and forming close social ties. A visitor drops in on Rainey and Lark's house to rent their upstairs room, and it's through this roommate that the story really gets started. The roommate vanishes unexpectedly, but someone comes looking for him and ruins Rainey's life along the way. Rainey uses his boat to escape, and we're brought along his tour of Lake Superior and his musings along the way.
Not quite what I expected, but not unwelcome either. Things seem a bit confused in places, if only because there's a few world-specific terms used as if we should be aware of what they mean, but never really are. This was a surprisingly beautiful book about life in the End Times as they impacted an average man, though. Things start out oddly hopeful, get progressively bleaker as the book goes on, and still manages to wrap all the way back around to hopeful by the end. Things never went quite as I expected at any point in the book, which added a bit to my enjoyment.
The book does meander quite a bit, so if the musings of a sad guitar player about the world around him don't interest you, you probably won't like this one. I did feel like the book was slow in places, but ultimately enjoyed how things played out.
"Here at the beginning, it must be said the End was on everyone's mind."
Rainey is a guitar player holed up in a small town surviving after climate change works its terrible magic on the world. Society has collapsed, but small towns like Rainey's survive through helping each other and forming close social ties. A visitor drops in on Rainey and Lark's house to rent their upstairs room, and it's through this roommate that the story really gets started. The roommate vanishes unexpectedly, but someone comes looking for him and ruins Rainey's life along the way. Rainey uses his boat to escape, and we're brought along his tour of Lake Superior and his musings along the way.
Not quite what I expected, but not unwelcome either. Things seem a bit confused in places, if only because there's a few world-specific terms used as if we should be aware of what they mean, but never really are. This was a surprisingly beautiful book about life in the End Times as they impacted an average man, though. Things start out oddly hopeful, get progressively bleaker as the book goes on, and still manages to wrap all the way back around to hopeful by the end. Things never went quite as I expected at any point in the book, which added a bit to my enjoyment.
The book does meander quite a bit, so if the musings of a sad guitar player about the world around him don't interest you, you probably won't like this one. I did feel like the book was slow in places, but ultimately enjoyed how things played out.