After a vivid opening about life in a Louisiana devastated by climate change, the rest of the book is filled with dry, workmanlike prose that reads like much nonfiction journalism. It is a factual accounting of many action-packed events but I really struggled to find any character or soul.
Outside of the climate fiction, I also really struggled with the world building. The structure and battle lines of this second American civil war were very confusing in an era where red states have grown so much beyond the deepest south. It was hard for me to see the path from the world when this book was written into the one that it describes.
