John's Reviews > Boiling Point

Won on Goodreads First Reads. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I set aside The Wise Men long enough to read Boiling Point, and it didn't take long because Boiling Point turned out to be a real page-turner. But this was not so apparent at the beginning. For instance, from page 9, "This particular sky was so blue she had to squint to look at it; the air balmy enough to convince the most devout skeptic of the reality of global warming." Oh, so a "balmy day" is proof of global warming? Give me a break! At this point I was thinking, "This book is going to be nothing but a one-dimensional propaganda piece for global-warming."

Happily this early conclusion was wrong. The characters turned out not to be all black or white but were convincingly complex, with some flaws in the "good" guys and occasional virtues in the "bad" guys. And it finally came out that global warming may not be the result of wicked human behavior after all. In fact, quite the opposite came about, but you will have to read the book to find out how. The further I got into the book, the better I liked it. I found myself putting off less-interesting tasks to finish the book, a sure sign that it had hooked me.

So, thank you, K. L. Dionne, for giving me the book via the Goodreads First Reads program and for writing such an engaging piece.