Blaze Island

The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island. During this wild night, a stranger washes up on the doorstep of the isolated house where Milan Wells lives with his daughter Miranda.

A climate scientist whose career was destroyed by climate change deniers, Wells has fled to this remote island with his daughter years before, desperate to protect her from the world's worsening weather.

Seemingly safe in her father's realm, Miranda walks the island's rocky shores, helping her father with his daily weather records. But the stranger's arrival breaks open Miranda's world, stirs up memories of events of long ago and compels her to wonder what her father is up to with his mysterious weather experiments. In the aftermath of the storm, she finds herself in a world altered so quickly that she hardly knows what has happened or what the unpredictable future will bring.

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I've just finished reading Blaze Island by Catherine Bush, and let me tell you, it was well worth the wait!! This was one of my most anticipated reads this year and it did not disappoint!

As a young girl, Miranda Wells and her father, an ex-climate scientist, move to a small, remote island off the northern coast of Newfoundland. There, they focus on tracking the weather, but Miranda is told to not tell anyone on the island that her father has anything to do with climate science, she’s forbidden to even speak the word. As she grows older, other scientists visit them on the island, but everything seems very secretive, and Miranda knows her father is hiding something. One night, during a category 5 hurricane, a man shows up on their doorstep. A happy accident to stumble across their house in the hurricane - or was it?

I’ve been a huge environmentalist my entire life! I’ve dedicated countless hours to documentaries and articles about climate change and living sustainably, so this read was absolutely perfect for me!! It was so interesting to see one person's prediction of what life in Atlantic Canada will be like when we start to feel the effects of climate change more!

I related very much to Miranda. We’re close to the same age and have a passion for the environment and sustainability. I felt a very strong connection to the character when I was reading the book!

If you’re looking for a page-turner that explores our own home in the future, examines the environment and the effects of climate change, look no further!!

I recommend this book.