Repetitive wordplay, exhaustive lists, and convenient scenarios fight with brilliant humor, clever characters, and an intriguing look at the relationship between parents and the children who don’t conform to their expectations.Įxceptional in theory but too busy to fully deliver.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. The addition of violence against women as a mostly underdeveloped plot device is particularly worth noting for sensitive readers. Like its predecessor, this is a genre-bending, humorous twist on the zombie apocalypse from a bird’s-eye view, but it, too, is bogged down by tedious exposition and too many morality tales shoehorned into one narrative. There, crows, tigers, owls, house cats, elephants, and all manner of creature must decide if Dee is a savior worth trusting or a danger that will lead them to their end. But Dee has other ideas, and together they are swept up by orcas and taken to S.T.’s old home. He tries to hide Dee away and force her to be something she isn’t. Then, when the creatures of the ocean and their prophet Onida call Dee from the tundra to Seattle, the heart of the outbreak, to stop the Changed Ones from further upsetting the natural order, S.T. All Dee wants is to throw herself into adventure and protect the animals she loves dearly but can never quite become. wants is to keep Dee safe from predators, both natural and the decidedly unnatural Changed Ones-former humans, ravaged by the virus and quickly evolving into grotesque superpredators. When they butt heads, Dee’s human emotions often end in angry, dangerous outbursts or the deep sorrow of depression. He wants her to imitate the MoFos he loved in the before-times, but Dee only wants to be a crow, a bee, a fish, or a musk ox.
As Dee becomes a teenager, she learns to speak the languages of the natural world, much to S.T.’s chagrin. Before her mother succumbed to the virus killing and changing all humankind, she left Dee in the care of the trees and birds of the Alaskan tundra.
has pecked off more than he can chew when it comes to raising the MoFo (human) child, Dee. must raise Dee, the last human on Earth, to keep the Changed Ones from destroying all remaining nature.ĭelightful, raucous, and bighearted S.T. A sequel to Hollow Kingdom (2019) in which clever talking crow S.T.
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