As the cover says, this book is a “New York Times Bestseller,” which, according to various online sources, roughly means that the NY Times listed it once. I looked it up: in April, 2023.
The author phrased her thoughts on extremely important topics: climate change, male-female inequality, violence, survival. The plot runs along three threads:
* Rose: the story of a new girl who comes among prostitutes named after flowers. We can get to know her life and destiny, her character has been developed the deepest in the book
* Grant: the rich young man who wants to rebel against his parents and social rules. Unfortunately, neither his character nor his plot became very interesting, I often wanted to turn the page when he started to suffer too much.
* The White Alice: idealistic researchers work on an isolated base, find themselves in a conflict situation and forced to make decisions, some of which turn out to be morally objectionable, but when you think about it, it is difficult to find a different way out of their situation. Real drama, real icy Mad Max atmosphere.
The plot really picks up in the last third of the book. The threads that have been left open until then are sewn up, the violence rages. Despite the erotic theme, the text does not contain explicit sex scenes, this is not that kind of book, similar to the action movies of the nineties, the image focuses on the lamp during sensitive moments.
Despite the stereotyped characters and their sometimes illogical actions, this is a brilliantly drawn near future. One cannot argue with the important points formulated in the novel, we can feel the effects of both climate change and migration on our skin even now. The final intertwining of the three strands is not a big bang, but the original concept itself and the ideas raised are particularly interesting and provocative.
It is worth reading, thinking and talking about it.
by besucherke