The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde - Bookin' It With Jen

This book uses dueling timelines to emphasize the significance water plays in our lives and how we take it for granted. In 2019 we meet Signe who relives and confronts her past that was spent among the fjords and glaciers of Norway until urban development changed everything. In an apocalyptic 2041 David and his daughter Lou are refugees trying to find a place that still has water but instead finds a boat on dry land that gives them hope and connects them all through time.

I really enjoyed that this book was set in the present and near future. It makes you stop and think about how seemingly ordinary and insignificant things we are doing now are going to affect the next generation. I do think that the story could benefit from more background information in David's parts as there is never any real explanation as to how things got quite so bad. I kept expecting some kind of connection between the company who destroyed Signe's town and the apocalyptic drought conditions to be revealed but nothing ever came of it. David's character was also pretty one dimensional and I never formed any sort of connection to him even though I felt his story line had more potential of the two.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of this book for review. All opinions are my own.