Title: Great theme, but not great fiction
Product review: I completely sympathize with the message of this novel: global warming is an urgent problem which people and governments -- especially in America -- should seriously address. But the novel doesn't work as fiction. The characters are wooden and lack credibility; the dialogue is cliche-ridden and unconvincing. It reads exactly like a political tract masquerading as a novel. I never had the sense that the writer got INSIDE his characters and really felt them as individuals with unique desires and histories and quirks. I never got a sense of ANY of the characters really FEELING the horrifying and sad reality of what a runaway greenhouse effect would mean. Instead, it was as if they were all mouthpieces for the author. But if that's all they are, it would have been better if Burns had simply written an essay or nonfiction book.
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