Wow, what a wonderful hot mess of a book. It featured
- Post-apocalyptical Louisville, KY, climate-changed into a jungle area, complete with monkeys
- Post-apocalyptical Louisville pandemic, presumably caused by birds
- Also a GIANT WALL built around post-apocalyptical Louisville to keep birds out, wtf
- Human singers replacing birdsong
- A girl whose drawings come to life
- A post-doomsday cult whose philosophy is: "Anything can be fixed; every object is a tool; we know what's broken; we need only find how."
Any one or maybe two of those elements would have made a great story; it's the mishmash of them all into 197 pages that is just too much. I got this as part of this year's LGBT Storybundle; if you ever see it like that, or on sale somewhere, it's definitely worth picking up.)
Ann Walker
