As someone who was living in the Allentown, PA area both in 2014 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, hearing the town name was a jump scare and a half. Reading this book, after living through a pandemic and adhering to lockdown procedures while watching former friends and neighbors disregard them completely, it was strange to see the optimism McGuire had for how humanity (especially America) would react to a pandemic.
This book really is a detailed explanation of why ecoterrorists need to seek out education about what it is that they're destroying and/or releasing into the general population.
I almost cried when the book shifted to Marigold's POV.

TBH, I probably would have rated this higher if I had read it before the COVID 19 pandemic happened