JOSEPH MCCOY

Listened to it on Audible, the voice actor who narrates it was worth listening too, the story itself was disappointing. The hyper empathy thing doesn't make the story science fiction, as some have called it, not sure if the author intended that categorization, but it wasn't sci-fi by any stretch. Some call it post apocalyptic literature, I would say it was pre-post apocalyptic. A real catastrophe, such as nuclear war, an EMP, etc would create a post apocalyptic world that would look totally different than what the author imagined from climate change, or were they still calling it global warming when the book was written? And just like with Al Gore and his predictions, the catastrophes from climate hysteria never happen. A book by Larry Burkett called Solar Flare does a much better job at describing how quickly things would deteriorate from a real catastrophe, although his writing style wasn't as compelling as the Authors. I personally found many aspects to be off putting, but perhaps the biggest was the whole new god part. I wanted to learn what the main character came up with and how that affected the story, and at first it was intriguing, until you find out (spoiler alert) her god is just the law of entropy, essentially. There would be nothing in the human soul that I could think of that would make anyone interested in making a god out of that. So ultimately, it didn't impact the story at all. The one thing that was woven throughout, had no really bearing on story, just like the hyper empathy thing.