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The plausibility of the dystopia in this novel is depressing and terrifying. Floods and plastic in the soil have rendered land unusable; the people of this novel survive by plucking plastic out of the water and selling it to factories where it is melted down and shaped into bricks to be used as building materials in the cities, where people still seem to have money. The characters were sympathetic and I appreciated the drive they still had to…

This book came out in October 2021, so I‘m guessing that the date of this “night to remember”—that the characters in the novel clearly do not remember—is a deliberate reference to the day everything shut down (at least in my area) for the COVID-19 pandemic.

This dystopian novel gives a glimpse into what humanity could really look like in the future (imo). The premise sounded great and I like the cover but it just was meh for me. Some parts felt slow while others felt rushed.
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This book is giving Margaret Atwood a run for her money. All the old white men need to read this book. And then sit down. Someone else needs to get a turn running things and maybe, just maybe we can turn things around

There was a theme with my library haul ( junk and trash) this one is dystopian and with the perfect balance of reality so you just know this is our future 😢😢😢

One thing I‘m going to miss about living in my house (ex is keeping it), is enjoying some reading time on the back patio. Nothing beats good weather, a book, and a beer!

I wanted to like this book, a near future dystopia set in Appalachia, but ultimately couldn't. Relentlessly grim, the story takes place in a junkyard empire where people either scavenge plastic from the river to survive or dance for a paying audience at a strip club. Still, the names bothered me the most: extinct plants and drowned cities; this felt forced and improbable. Also, too many coincidences involved in the ending. Not quite a pick for me.

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A Dystopian where ♻Plastic is king👑...and currency💲
This story had everything going for it, great writing, premise, characters, authenticity...it just needed to be finished. This is exactly what happened in her other book Road Out of Winter. I‘m not a “write your own ending” kind of person...I feel like someone stole my book so I couldn‘t finish it.

This new release had been on my radar since it was announced. Setting: a strip club in Ohio during the apocalypse. It‘s really lovely and harrowing. Alison Stine is an auto-read for me and found this on Hoopla!