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Title: The Light Pirate
Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton
Pages: 357
My Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
My Thoughts:
I finished this book a few days ago and it is still weighing heavy on my heart. It was such an incredibly sad story. The message is so powerful and realistically, it could happen in the not so distant future. I think that is what scares me the most!
The book is broken into four parts - power, water, light & time. It takes place in Florida where the Lowe family prepares for Hurricane Wanda. Frida, the mother, is very pregnant and something keeps telling her to go north for safety but her husband, Kirby, is against it. He is a lineman and he feels obligated to stay to restore any power outages that come with the destruction. Tragedy hits the family leaving Kirby with a newborn (Wanda) to raise on his own.
As Wanda gets older she experiences so much heartache and loss. The state of Florida has eventually ceased to exist. Wanda decides to stay behind with her neighbor Phyllis where they live off the grid for several years. Once Phyllis passes, Wanda is left to survive on her own. While there are still others in the area, Wanda does not know if she can trust anyone…not even the girl from her past.
This book really is beautifully written. It definitely gives me some Where the Crawdad Sings vibes in the way that Wanda and Kya have to learn to survive on their own. The characters are relatable and the story is a very heavy, realistic topic. I did feel like there were parts (mostly in the second half) that seemed to drag on a bit. To me, there are so many unanswered questions…I mostly want to know what happened to Lucas.
Thank you NetGalley, Grand Central Publishing and Lily Brooks-Dalton for the Advanced Readers Copy of this book for my honest review!