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Lily Brooks-Dalton

Autor von Good Morning, Midnight

4 Werke 1,233 Mitglieder 76 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 1 Lesern

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Lily Brooks-Dalton was born in southern Vermont. She received her associate's degree at seventeen, then moved to Ireland; after working her way around the world for three and a half years, she returned to the United States and bought her first motorcycle. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Geburtstag
1987
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female
Nationalität
USA

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An astonishingly well written book. The author deftly weaves her story, needing not to serve an avalanche of words when a concise sentence suffices. I read this as if in a daze, fully immersed in the faltering landscape of a climate-ravaged Florida, populated with real people whose motivations are never really clear. We watch the protagonist, Wanda, as she ages from uncertain youth to confident maturity, discovering what is truly lost and what can truly be found again.
 
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EZLivin | 26 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 4, 2024 |
Sometime in near future, Florida is disappearing, parts of it lost after every violent storm hits its shores. People are slowly leaving. In one of the small towns, a pregnant woman and her two step-sons are waiting for the arrival of another hurricane, while her husband is outside working as a lineman. This is enough of an introduction as any other info would destroy what I consider the best part of the novel.

Sometimes I feel like lately, every other book I've read is cli-fi. It is inevitable that after some time they all start feeling the same. It takes a seriously good author to set these books apart in themes, character development and plot outcomes. While I think that Lily Brooks-Dalton wrote a decent, poetic book it is still not up to par with the best genre books such as [b:Migrations|42121525|Migrations|Charlotte McConaghy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1612818084l/42121525._SY75_.jpg|65230718].

There were three main problems I had with it. The most obvious is the pacing. This book is divided into four parts. The first part was fantastic and the second part was just a little bit below that standard. But subsequent parts were progressively worse. They were much slower and what they described added very little to the story. The end was especially formulaic and disappointing.

The second problem was Wanda. I couldn't connect with her and cared very little about her throughout the novel. At first, I thought maybe she is intentionally written "at a distance" to underline her "otherness", belonging to the new world. Even the thing that made her special didn't make any sense. It was just distracting and a lazy plot device for a couple of scenes.

And the worst thing for me was the fact that the swamp setting made this so evocative of [b:Where the Crawdads Sing|36809135|Where the Crawdads Sing|Delia Owens|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1582135294l/36809135._SY75_.jpg|58589364] that I just couldn't stop comparing it to that book, which I found much, much better.

3.5 stars
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 26 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 4, 2024 |
Almost unbearably beautiful and terrifying.
 
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Lemeritus | 26 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 24, 2024 |
If I was a baby while about to have a major hurricane I would be going somewhere safe and just in case something goes wrong with the baby or myself that would have been the first thing on my mind is the baby's health. So far I didn't like Lucas he seemed to be little bit of an asshole to Flip and to his stepmother always nasty to her when she was trying to make him like her and also stealing from people especially when is was the money which Lucas had no business of doing. And the 2 boys knew what kind of weather that was going to be going on and they should have stayed where they were supposed to be but they just continue going thru people's homes and not worrying about getting home in time for the storm to start. I was a shame that Flip and Frida had to lose their lives for stubborn people and one person who didn't to leave their house to be somewhere else to be safe and the other was Lucas who wasn't up to no good. I don't understand why people were blaming Wanda for the hurricane that day she was born it wasn't her fault and those kids bullying her and drowning her she did not deserve that. Maybe Kirby should of shocked up on some food and drinks for them to survive on and something in the house Kirby seemed to be like good role model for this kids only worry about things at the last minute. But I still gave this a 4 stars cause I like how Wanda was a strong woman and I also liked her and Phyllis relationship and sounded like Wanda looked up to Phyllis like a mother and a teacher.… (mehr)
 
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kellykelly6 | 26 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 26, 2024 |

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