It’s easy to believe in the apocalypse when you’re losing your religion.
NASA has assured everyone the passage of rogue planet Malachite will be safe, but Crosby's been getting other messages―from a fortune teller and Malachite truther message boards. And now she believes that Malachite will kill everyone who doesn’t ascend to the fourth dimension―a higher plane that transcends physicality.
She tries to prepare her friends and family to leave their bodies behind and raise their frequency by changing their diets, wearing the right crystals, and moving into her friend’s bunker before it’s too late. But no one is listening.
The more time she spends trying to talk her roommate and her quirky friends into her apocalypse plans, the more Crosby is forced to face the cracks in everything she believes to be true.
This novel in verse explores the danger and humanity of conspiracy in a post-truth world through empathy, friendship, and forgiveness.
Look at that amazing cover. Beautiful. This is one that would really stand out on a shelf.
This is a tough book to review, because Crosby annoyed me. Sorry, but it's true. I read tarot and I think crystals are pretty and I've been know to take echinacea, but I like to think that those things aren't my whole personality. Crosby didn't have much else going for her at first. I also try not to assume that I know better than others what's best for someone. But then, we're all products of our upbringing, and a throwaway reference to vaccinations makes it clear that her parents are the worst kind of hippie. Reading Crosby attempting to force her beliefs on others and looking down on others was just as uncomfortable as it would have been if she'd been a fundamentalist Christian instead of vaguely Wiccan-ish.
But that's a sign of how good the writing is, isn't it? That it was so well handled it made me uneasy to read. It is easy, these days, for anyone to find information that agrees with their personal beliefs, and once you've found one bit there's always more to reinforce it. Easy for anyone to get caught up in it, let alone a lonely college student finding her beliefs challenged for the first time in her life.
So a difficult review, but a book that I did enjoy reading, and I'll be recommending it to other people. I think it'll do well.
Meet me in the Fourth Dimension publishes on the 12th March, 2023. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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