I was told I would cry, yet I didn’t really feel emotional except for thinking how we are getting closer to this dystopia every day. 

This was a touching story combining a present timeline and past flashbacks to unwind a melancholic story about one woman’s wonder at nature and wandering. 

This is set in a very realistic future in which many of animals, like polar bears and the great apes, are extinct and the oceans are running out of fish. Franny is a loner seeking the Arctic Tern following what might be their last migration.

I wish we got more about the effects of this extinction has on Earth. Like, humanity would not be able to continue as normal with awful events such as these. How is nature reacting? What are the policies, politics, promises?

<b>That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.

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What did annoy me was how repetitive Franny’s not at fault for her actions. We’re told that she wanders, that it’s ‘in her blood’. Therefore, because it is part of her nature to abandon people and places, people shouldn’t take it personally.

The whole sleepwalking bit also felt random. Violence and crime excused and looked over with no intervention by anyone who knows. 

The flashbacks were trying to add to character development, yet felt like they were trying to add a thriller and crime and mystery element. 

I was going to give this three stars, but as I was writing this review I realised how dissatisfied I was by this. I have to admit, the prose was great though. 

I would have much rather a slow-moving story about a woman recovering from grief and seeking answers in birds.