I’m swimming against the tide here when I say that I didn’t fall in love with this book. I found Franny not only an unreliable narrator, but also self-indulgent and overwrought. I really wanted to slap her and make her wake up to the trail of damage she left in her wake!
Set in a near future where there are no longer any wild creatures in our world, I felt McConaghy missed the opportunity to build on this scenario: what would this world look like apart from the direct loss of the sounds of nature? What effect would the loss of all wild things have? Aside from killing (pun intended) the fishing industry, the world appears to have not changed at all.
I really wanted to love this book, but I didn’t.
(I listened to the audio book, read by Barrie Kreinik)