Caro
The premise sold me instantly. Climate change has trashed the Earth, there's acid rain, a floating island of garbage the size of Texas, and a drug called deleria that lets you see into other timelines. Cas is investigating why her ex Yana blew herself up along with all her research. Great hook, and the first stretch of the book is honestly really good.
The problem is it doesn't go anywhere new after that. Most of the book is Cas inside her own head, drug tripping through realities and thinking about Yana, and it just loops. Same beats again and again. By the halfway point I was kind of bored and the whole climate angle that drew me in had faded into the background.
And I never warmed up to the characters. Cas makes the same dumb choices on repeat and her thing with Yana feels more like obsession than love, probably because we never actually see their relationship, we just get told over and over how intense it was. Hard to care when you're only told and never shown. The writing itself is fine and the ideas are interesting, I just wanted to like it more than I did
The premise sold me instantly. Climate change has trashed the Earth, there's acid rain, a floating island of garbage the size of Texas, and a drug called deleria that lets you see into other timelines. Cas is investigating why her ex Yana blew herself up along with all her research. Great hook, and the first stretch of the book is honestly really good.
The problem is it doesn't go anywhere new after that. Most of the book is Cas inside her own head, drug tripping through realities and thinking about Yana, and it just loops. Same beats again and again. By the halfway point I was kind of bored and the whole climate angle that drew me in had faded into the background.
And I never warmed up to the characters. Cas makes the same dumb choices on repeat and her thing with Yana feels more like obsession than love, probably because we never actually see their relationship, we just get told over and over how intense it was. Hard to care when you're only told and never shown. The writing itself is fine and the ideas are interesting, I just wanted to like it more than I did