Loved itI have not had like a really good time with it with a massive exception of How High We Go in the Dark. I think that's what it's called. I'm blanking, but that is one of my favorite books.
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How High We Go in the Dark (2022)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families; and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
- ISBN:
- 9780063072657
- Length:
- 304 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, literary fiction
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Loved itHow you go in the dark, so good.
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Loved itthis was like a solid four-star read ... some of the stories in this collection knocked my socks off
Loved itYou have to read it the whole way through because it went from being a good story to an amazing story with the ending that it had. It just left me with my jaw dropped to the floor and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was obsessed about it.
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MixedI think what I liked the most about it was the consume ability of it. I could not put it down.
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