2.5 stars

Thank you @titan_books for providing me with a copy of The Migration to read and review! I thought I would love this one but sadly it ended up being not for me - however, there is a lot of merit to it, and hopefully that will come across in my review!
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All across the world, young people are being diagnosed with J12, a mysterious illness with a growing mortality rate but when the patients are dying, they aren’t staying dead... When you say it like that, it’s understandable why it might be appropriate to deem it ‘evocative of Pet Sematary’ but really the similarities stop there. It’s not a raw, creepy tale of grief, but an interesting ‘cli-fi’ story, and I appreciated Marshall’s commentary on climate change.
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But I thought the Black Death link would play a larger part in the story, and was a bit disappointed when the main character’s cool auntie with a PhD sort of got shunted off to one side, that strand just felt underdeveloped. As with any dystopian tale though, there’s good use of newspaper articles, medical reports and even DMs to show the devastating effects of the new order and the ins and outs of the changes affecting the world’s youth.
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My biggest issue was that much of the story was told through dialogue, and I found it a bit stilted and clunky. The main character is 17 so maybe the tone was just a bit young for me!