Worth it for the future storyline predominately in the last three issues. The rest, while fun, just felt kinda dumb and didn’t do it for me.

I’m torn. The writing isn’t bad, but the plotting is off. There is a surprising lack of suspense and a strange matter-of-fact way of introducing scenes that could have been more interesting, if they had just been presented differently. When a previous scene does build some tension or curiosity it is almost always diffused in the first few sentences of the next chapter. It’s quite strange.

Contact remains one of my favourite movie and I respect the adaptation even more now. The movie gets at the heart of the story better. But I also really enjoyed the opportunity to get inside the characters’ heads, too. In terms of interesting questions and musings, I think the book has it. In terms of good plotting and getting at The question this book strives to articulate, the movie has it.

The best in the series yet for me. The pacing is much more aligned with a thriller—every chapter moves the major plot forward. While the previous had more romance mixed into the crime plot, this one puts that on hold. Plenty of twists and turns while they try to figure out if the prisoner sent to Rockton is a guilty or not. Much more tracking in the wilds and less town drama. Felt like a nice change up. Thoroughly enjoyable.

After a bit of a rocky start this book gets terribly, terribly good. It pulls no punches whatsoever and sits squarely in intersectional climate fiction.

The world has changed as the glaciers melt, bringing a near constant rain with it. Repeating the past, the Canadian government has begun snatching indigenous people away, never to be seen again. There are rumours that most people do not dream anymore and this drives them mad. These people believe that the indigenous people hold some key they must possess for the heavy locks on their mind.

The story is about a found family, their stark pasts, and what moving forward looks like in the face of systemic oppression and hopelessness. It’s not always dark and sometimes hard to read, but it is as dynamic as the people in it, making it a rewarding and worthwhile read.