Review: Exodus

Exodus by Julie Bertagna

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Actual teen readers won't remember this, but there was a movie released in 1995 called Waterworld. If you like this book, check out Netflix for the movie.

Polar ice caps melt. Water levels rise, covering most of the world's landmasses. Pockets of humanity arrive but are gradually being swallowed up by the oceans. There simply isn't enough above-water ice on this planet to do more than submerge coastlines and low-lying areas but it's a neat premise.

I did like the book and the people. The refugee camps, the orphaned children, the slave trade all seem like possibilities in the world created in the book. What lost me was the Weave. I can accept a lot of completely imagined things but the idea of a world existing with no idea of what has happened elsewhere and where refugees could go when there is an actual web available...I just can't accept it. Because of that, the portions of the book dedicated to the cyber world are simply too fake for me. Which is crazy since I have no issue believing in towering cities built on the earth's bedrock and reaching into the sky, or treenesters that wear plastic bags... But, fact of the matter is that I didn't like any part of the lumenbeings, Weave, cyberwizz stuff.

I'll check out Zenith and see where everyone ends up, though.



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