wow this book just never took off for me. I have been reading it for 4 months and I actually have about 20 pages left to go and I am not even interested enough to read them. This is a sequel to 40 Signs of Rain which is also about the near-future and the impact of climate change. The focus in that first part on two very different characters--a researcher and her husband--was much more compelling to me. The single man who is the focus of this installment was wholly unappealing and way to into living out some masculine-wilderness fantasy thing.