Book: The Light Pirate
Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton
Pages: 336
This is my 131st read for the year
This is the story of a family in Florida. Kirby and his wife Frida are preparing for a hurricane. Frida - who wanted to move away years ago - feels trapped and scared. She is pregnant, her stepsons don't want anything to do with her, and her husband is always busy helping repair the electricity after each storm. This storm will be different. Kirby is unprepared - downplaying the storm until it is too late and tragedy strikes.
Years pass and his daughter, Wanda, is growing up in a very different world. Florida continues to be ravaged by storms, and more and more people leave. But Kirby has always refused. Wanda knows nothing different and adapts to the landscape around her. As she goes from childhood to adulthood, she finds her ability to go with the change of Florida to fit her perfectly and she finds purpose in her surroundings.
This book was okay. It started out pretty good and I didn't want to stop listening to it. I liked Wanda and her brother and a woman in their town, Phyllis. Kirby is ridiculous. The fact that he refused to move away from a dying town and the reasons the author gave for it didn't sit well. This is just my opinion. Phyllis was a neat character, but she too always refused to leave. It was supposed to look heroic, but in the end it really just seemed ridiculous. Kirby was the worst, though. The choices his character made almost the entire book were infuriating. The overall message was good - I can definitely see what happened in this book to happen to Florida in our future. I just wish the characters were a bit stronger.
Stars: 3.5
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