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1. Story 3.5
2. Action 3.5
3. Page turner 3.5
4. Overall 3
Here is actual footage of me when I found this book:
Here is actual footage of me reading this book:
Thoughts:
I don't know. My feelings are annoyed. Offended. I think I just over-hyped myself over this one. I need to settle my emotions are revisit this when I am less emotional. This book had been on my TBR for so long. I wanted to like this way more than I did. Do you also do this, hype yourself up only to be severely disappointed?
An Orcamancer? That's what we're going with Sam? I thought it would be way....cooler. I loved the concept of this horrible dystopian future that, yes, could be plausible but the multiple P.O.V did not allow me to really invest into the characters.The characters themselves were strange and with so many introduced in such a small book it felt emotionless. I felt like I was kind of reading a newspaper article. Just dead inside. Also combined, I can imagine 150 pages alone was dedicated to useless information about the city itself. Short chapters kept me turning the pages and 150 pages in it started to get interesting but I don't know man. I over-hyped myself. An Orcamancer?!
Synopsis:
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves. Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.
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