How High We Go in the Dark
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I just finished this book and found it- interesting? I honestly enjoyed it, even if it was over the top. It felt human in the way that I got attached to characters very quickly. It felt- hopeful in a way? Just the fact that humans would still live through that I guess, and find love and still have some sort of will and hope, even if it has been twisted. I am honestly still processing it, so I would really appreciate some other opinions.
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I have started listening to this and it seems very bleak at the beginning. I wanted to start writing down thoughts before it got stale.
Chapter 1: The audio works for the info dumps scattered through the chapter. Pretty standard life story for an academic who is obsessed with their work with the only really unique plot point being it is a woman who has left a family behind. The narrator is a by the numbers regretful parent. The biology being presented seems pretty sketchy..
(view spoiler)[There are big unusual viruses being found in the arctic and are hinted at through the chapter, clearly everyone is doomed. The large viruses are real and have been found throughout Siberia in permafrost. There size is a bit of a mystery and it seems unlikely they can infect humns (hide spoiler)]
Chapter 2: Massive trigger warnings here child-harm. (view spoiler)[Euthanising children with incurable diseases in a bizarre and ridiculous manner for shock value (hide spoiler)]. This whole chapter just seems gratuitous. The narration is again good but boy the plot is on the nose. This is just bleak with no real redeeming features.
(view spoiler)[ A Disney land Euthanisation park for children using a massive roller coaster to kill them. The virus seems to have been designed by the writer for maximum creepy factor rather than being based on real nasty viruses of the past. A fantasy chimera virus that rewrites DNA which would normally kill very quickly rather than making you grow new organs. (hide spoiler)]
It all seems to be so over the top to be ridiculous. Feels a lot like the Mad Adam books which I also found to be rather ludicrous (but with a more solid basis).