[allisdust]

Mostly because it starts with a Indian heat wave that kills 20 million people in a couple of days. Beyond that its a load of gibberish glorifying eco terrorism and full blown woke politics. Basically its written to be the extreme left's wet dream of breakdown in global order and bringing to heel the 'global elite'. It is difficult to move past the heavy pro communist overtones and the whole narrative lurches into many tangents that have no relation to the plot.

The subject chosen is really interesting but the way the novel was written (fiction mixed with facts) and some chapters where the author directly communicates with the reader is really weird. I wouldn't be surprised if this is their first novel and reads like a middle school essay of some kind.

[7sidedmarble]

>I wouldn't be surprised if this is their first novel and reads like a middle school essay of some kind.

It's Kim Stanley Robinson...

[allisdust]

My bad. I didn't lookup the Author name. I am a fan of his Mars trilogy. I don't know why the writing style is so crappy in this one. I tried pushing forward but its just hard. Its actually a lot similar to the Red faction in the Mars trilogy. That rabid faction never made any sense to me in those novels and the same pre assumed moral superiority didn't make much sense in the new novel.

I prized the trilogy for its vivid descriptions of the Mars in the beginning to how it was transformed using technology. The pace was good and never boring. Not so in this latest one - some characters and their feelings are given so much space in the book without moving the plot - like that character who survived the heat wave - by the 3rd of the book, you would wish he didn't - just chapters and chapters of PTSD descriptions.