{"id":2745,"date":"2021-08-11T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2021-06-25T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T03:25:44","slug":"book-a-climate-of-doubt-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/book-a-climate-of-doubt-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: A Climate of Doubt (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AA Climate of Doubt
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
Author: Russell F. Moran
Length: 250 pages<\/p>\n

***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW***<\/p>\n

Most people don\u2019t take thrillers seriously. These types of books are meant for silly entertainment and often have a plot similar to campy B-movies. If you\u2019re into that kind of book,\u00a0A Climate of Doubt<\/em>\u00a0is right up your alley. I was actually a little surprised at how well it handled most of its female characters for the genre (despite all of them being married and tied to their husbands at the wrists and ankles). Even though\u00a0A Climate of Doubt<\/em>\u00a0deals with serious scientific subjects, you can turn your brain off and enjoy the mayhem that wild swings in weather will bring upon a planet. Of course, I partly say this because\u00a0A Climate of Doubt<\/em>\u00a0exists in a logical sphere separate from our known universe (i.e., the secondary and tertiary effects of such drastic changes are not addressed or are merely mentioned after the fact).<\/p>\n

A Climate of Doubt<\/em>\u00a0suffers from a lack of research to create a believable narrative. Subjects like meteorology, weather disasters, solar panels, treason, and how the government actually works (among other topics) should have been researched more thoroughly than they were here. For example, the \u201cweather experts\u201d provide no alternative explanations\u2014like polar vortices\u2014or even attempt to describe what is happening other than calling it \u201cdrastic climate change.\u201d Even the chosen method of this extreme weather is completely implausible. If the constellation of satellites had solar panels as large as football fields, they would only be able to adjust 0.000000084% of the light that hits the Earth\u2019s surface. I\u2019m not even going to touch the huge amount of weather effects that were completely ignored in this scenario (or used hand-waving to ignore, like during space launches), as it would make this review much too long.<\/p>\n

While this book suffers from many flaws of self-published books (i.e., proofreading, grammatical, and formatting errors), there were fewer than most I\u2019ve seen. Perhaps I didn\u2019t notice these errors as much because so much of this book was redundant or unnecessary. Writers are often told to \u201ckill their darlings,\u201d but this book left every single one of them intact. Many chapters could have been cut completely, their content adding nothing to the story (including a groan-inducing, fourth-wall-breaking self-insert of the novelist husband). Considering half of the pages of this 250-page book were only partially filled, it won\u2019t take you much time to get through it if you want to endure 125 pages of blunt-force exposition through endless \u201cAs you know, Bob\u201d dictations.<\/p>\n

A redundant and poorly researched thriller, I give\u00a0A Climate of Doubt<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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