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Would have been better without the forced thriller/mystery angle

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

October 6, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Family (four of the five characters are from the same family) The setting of this novel is the best part – set on a fictional island, Shearwater, near Antarctica, it follows a family of four (father, Dominic, and three children) as they prepare to leave Shearwater forever after eight years as caretakers. Shearwater is home to one of the largest seed banks in the world, a large seal population, and once housed a thriving science community. But climate change is coming for even […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Charlotte McConaghy, climate fiction

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:97 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Charlotte McConaghy, climate fiction ·
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The Knights of the Round Table vs. Climate Change

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

November 24, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. The realm is in peril, and the knights of the round table have been called back to duty once again, waking up from under the earth to fight . . . climate change. Among other things. Here’s a little bit of the blurb: “An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, ARCs, audiobooks, climate fiction, king arthur, narfna, Perilous Times, reimaginings, Satire, Thomas D. Lee

narfna's CBR15 Review No:139 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, ARCs, audiobooks, climate fiction, king arthur, narfna, Perilous Times, reimaginings, Satire, Thomas D. Lee ·
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A fairytale for the end times

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

August 28, 2022 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

Did it take me over two years to read this book? Yes, yes it did. Had I stopped reading at the point where it was just about to get really good? Yes, yes I had. Was it worth it to get back into it and keep reading? Heck yeah. I put it down two years ago because it was weird in a way I wasn’t interested in. I was used to Vandermeer’s more sci-fi edged fever dream style of writing, but Borne had an air […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: climate fiction, Jeff VanderMeer

Claire Badger's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: climate fiction, Jeff VanderMeer ·
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“I can’t help but sense that desperation is right around the bend.”

Dry by Shusterman, Neal

July 12, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

cbr11bingo – Listicle! (Dry is featured on this list of 2018 must-read teen fiction) Drought isn’t a new phenomenon to Alyssa or anyone else in California, but the ante is upped when one day the taps run dry.  Quickly termed the “tap-out” by local news, it doesn’t take long for stores to run out of bottled water and for people to start freaking out.  In this environmental disaster book, Neal Shusterman and his son Jarrod explore the possibilities of how chaos could unfold in California […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11bingo, climate change, climate fiction, environmental disaster, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, survival, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:46 · Genres: Audiobooks, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11bingo, climate change, climate fiction, environmental disaster, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, survival, YA, Young Adult ·
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