Blackfish City

Nearly a 5. I waffled.

Very interesting. The worldbuilding is the star here, with the titular city being the best character of all. Miller has imagined a rich post-climate crisis world for us, different enough to intrigue but familiar enough to depress and scare us.

The story is a little slow at first, but did pick up and eventually pull us in. However, the book was more about family (both literal and in the broader "human family" or even "living creature family"), our relationship to one another and to our surroundings, income inequality, and the persecution heaped on the ill, both mentally and physically. Well work a read.

Also, my cover glowed in the dark. Freaked me out the first night I saw it.