LitPick Review
The book is set in the future, where America is a ruin and cities on wheels prowl the northern ice caps, the smaller ones look for trash as food, and the larger ones look for smaller cities as food. The protagonists, Hester and Tom, are not officially married. They are aviators of an airship. During one of their voyages they pick up Professor Nimrod Pennyroyal, a famous historian/novelist. On that same voyage, a mysterious group called Green Storm attacks the trio. Hester, Tom, and Professor Pennyroyal manage to survive, but their ship is going to crash. They land their damaged ship near the near mythical city of Anchorage, which has decided to go to what is now Canada because of Pennyroyal's book on America, which he says is re-growing with new plants and animals. They seek to find a safe haven among the people who, according to Pennyroyal's book, live there. The Margravine, or leader, of Anchorage falls in love with Tom, and to win Tom back, Hester concocts a dangerous scheme. She eventually regrets the decision, but it is now to late. It is hard to imagine that everything will turn out well.
Opinion:
This book was a very well-written book. Every so often, you find a book with countless problems, and the possible solution to those problems always goes wrong, yet the book has a happy ending. This is definitely that sort of book. It is amazing that everything works out okay, yet it does. My summary above is only a fraction of all the twists and turns of the plot yet it is all well described and is packed into 309 pages. This book could be worthy to take a place in my favorites, and a grand total of three authors have gotten books into there.
