I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book. 

It was good, it just didn’t catch my attention as fully as I might have wanted. I think honestly it’s more of a Me problem than the book, and there were definitely things I did like—the story of Hanlon and her husband’s swims I did find engaging, as they felt more and more connected to their surroundings and kept pushing to swim further and further into winter. But I think this book required a kind of visualization that isn’t a part of my reading practice and I ended up feeling geographically lost for a lot of it. 

The second half also felt like it grazed something but didn’t settle into it completely; I learned some things, but I dunno, I guess I just wanted more like “hey capitalism, woof,” as a part of grappling with ecosystem loss? I think Hanlon was trying to make a move to gesture at climate change without despair, and I don’t need her to be like High and Mighty about it all, but I think a little greater call to action might have been helpful? I’m not sure, but that part felt a little flat to me.