Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy - 4.5 stars rounded down

[Booknblues]

The Arctic tern has the longest migration of any animal. It flies from the Arctic all the way to the Antarctic, and then back again within a year. This is an extraordinarily long flight for a bird its size. And because the terns live to be thirty or so, the distance they will travel over the course of their lives is the equivalent of flying to the moon and back three times.”

So Franny Stone, a research scientist captures 3 and fastens on tracking devices, so she can follow them. Franny who is a bit of an enigma just has to find a boat who is willing to track them and in this futuristic world which many of us fear, fishing is nearly illegal as all of the fish in the sea are dying as are the birds in the sky and the mammals on land. Life is precarious and precious.

This novel, Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy packs a powerful punch. While the reader roots for Franny we are given enough nibbles of her back story to wonder if she is deserving.

The novel is fast paced and exciting and has points which the reader must suspend disbelief and go with the flow.

I had previously read McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves and quite liked it. I had read the raves about Migrations and thought it was due time for me to read that as well and I'm glad I did.

[Theresa]

Well said, Fran. Thanks for joining me on this read. I am adding Once There Were Wolves to the TBR but plan on waiting a year or more to read it.

[Booknblues]

I loved Once There Were Wolves, but admittedly have a thing for wolves.

I don't think that Inti has quite the dynamism that Franny does, but she is an interesting character.