This book could have been a lot more. In the near future, a plague is spreading around (yikes where have I heard that before), and climate change is increasing at a rapid rate, causing life on earth to alter dramatically. 

This book doesn’t follow one set of characters with a main plot; it’s one of those books (like Cloud Atlas) that has a series of interconnected shorter stories. And I gotta say, that is not my fave genre! That’s not to say this was bad—it was fine! But I found it hard to care about the characters by the end. 

I think the strongest story is the euthanasia amusement park; but that could also be because it was towards the beginning of the novel. I mean, I think it’s an objectively good short story, but I just think that as the book wore on, it got harder and harder to care about the characters. I could tell that there were some deep, profound feelings I was supposed to be feeling about what was going on; but I was just bored by the end, I’m sorry to say it.