A review by jessa_sage1996
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

The world has reached a point of no return because of climate change and are suffering the results of an environmental apocalypse. Each story is an interconnected short story of people existing on this ravaged planet.

I liked this book. It's super short and should have only taken a few hours to read. It reminded me of “How High We Go in the Dark” but shorter. Much shorter. This book plops a reader right in the middle of an already ravaged and being ravaged planet. You can assume what happened to the world and it spells out certain aspects such as numerous epidemics and massive wildfires, global temperature increases and flooding and mudslides and topsoil erosion - I mean, I suppose the book pretty much does spell out what happened to the planet but the book does begin when everything has already fallen apart. It seemed very speculative fiction to me which, as the genre does, causes me to get lost in my head. It was interesting.