In the near future, with climate change having devastating impacts on the global climate, Franny Lynch is committed to tracking Arctic terns on their migration across the globe. In her quest to follow the terns, she attempts to join the crew of a fishing boat on a voyage in pursuit of the terns. From there, the author weaves in multiple different points in time, charting Franny's background and her often tragic life.
I get why this book is so well-rated, but I don't really think it was the book for me right now. I didn't love the suspense elements in this book, I think because it felt a little taunting to me: there are a couple (really, one) really key events that you know, through flashbacks and their impact on the present, are really important. For obvious dramatic reasons the full story of that isn't revealed until the end of the book, which is fine but felt slightly gimmicky to me. It's definitely lovely writing, but the biggest thing for me is that it is really really really bleak (with pretty explicit discussions of death and suicide), and while I think it's a worthy and excellent book, it just wasn't for me.
I get why this book is so well-rated, but I don't really think it was the book for me right now. I didn't love the suspense elements in this book, I think because it felt a little taunting to me: there are a couple (really, one) really key events that you know, through flashbacks and their impact on the present, are really important. For obvious dramatic reasons the full story of that isn't revealed until the end of the book, which is fine but felt slightly gimmicky to me. It's definitely lovely writing, but the biggest thing for me is that it is really really really bleak (with pretty explicit discussions of death and suicide), and while I think it's a worthy and excellent book, it just wasn't for me.