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A review by caitgriff
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
3.0
For such an enticing premise, there was little movement, interpersonal growth, or sense of traditional story-arc to this book.
I felt that each of the two POV characters, Dylan and Stella, were charming and kept me engaged in an otherwise banal telling of an unprecedented environmental collapse. However, the relationship between Dylan and Constance felt like a telling-not-showing sort of relationship, one built on Dylan's distant pining after Constance, and her relaxed acceptance of his affection.
I didn't get much of a sense of resolution from the story at all, and I struggle to even think of a way the narrative could have been resolved, given the way it presented itself. Maybe it was getting somewhere, near the end, but then it just ended. It was fine.
I felt that each of the two POV characters, Dylan and Stella, were charming and kept me engaged in an otherwise banal telling of an unprecedented environmental collapse. However, the relationship between Dylan and Constance felt like a telling-not-showing sort of relationship, one built on Dylan's distant pining after Constance, and her relaxed acceptance of his affection.
I didn't get much of a sense of resolution from the story at all, and I struggle to even think of a way the narrative could have been resolved, given the way it presented itself. Maybe it was getting somewhere, near the end, but then it just ended. It was fine.