America Pacifica

Add this one to my list of poorly rated books I loved. This is such a wonderful debut that probably just found the wrong audience.

I love how each of Anna North's novels are wildly different from one another. There are many authors who can write in a wide variety, but still sound like the same author. I'd have no idea this was the same author as The Life and Death of Sophie Stark if you didn't tell me.

America Pacifica was North's first, and though it's not perfect, it tells a riveting story and is quite beautifully written. It does have it's missteps thought, the biggest of which almost completely derails this story. This novel did fall completely apart at its lowest moment, but I still think it's worth the read.

This “review” is part of a series in which I quickly scribble a few of the thoughts I had regarding a book I read in the first half of 2021 during a time when I let my reviews get very behind.