I ended up loving this book. It took me getting through the first section to really get into it. Once you get into it, it moves very fast and it is so good. I loved it. Great characters and great plot. I have already been telling others about this book. I read a NetGalley copy.

bookscoffeebrews Book Review: ALL THE WATER IN
THE WORLD
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Author: Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall
Publisher: St Martins Press @stmartinspress
Thank you @netgalley for my gifted ARC

The mesmerizing cover art of All The Water in the
World seized my attention, showcasing iconic New
York City landmarks like the Empire State Building,
largely submerged in water, embodying the invincible
human spirit of resilience and hope. The publisher's
blurb further ignited my curiosity, and I knew I had to
immerse myself in this extraordinary journey. The story,
set in a not-too-distant future, is masterfully narrated
by Nonie, a young teen with a profound affinity for
water. Alongside her sister, Bix, and their father, Nonie
resides on the rooftop of the former American Museum
of Natural History in Manhattan, now a thriving
community known as AMEN, where determination,
adaptability, and hope converge. As they strive to
preserve precious artifacts and knowledge, the
community's unwavering resilience and determination
serve as a powerful testament to the human capacity
for hope, transformation, and triumph.

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Thanks to St Martins Press and Netgalley for this advanced copy!

This was such a fascinating novel and I completely see how it's been compared to Station Eleven. After the glaciers have melted, Nonie lives with her family and people on top of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The world-building in this novel is exceptional and I appreciated how easily this book fits into post-apocalyptic literature without being basic or a copycat. The short chapters helped keep the pace going and I was never felt like the plot was treading down a worn path. The characters were interesting and distinct and I loved how the author handled the stress of this world. The book never gave false hope while also not being depressing. I can't wait to read another novel from Caffell, this was fantastic.

This is a dystopian novel with a climate change theme. Nonnie has been living most of her life with her dad, her sister Bix and several other researchers at AMNH, the building that was famously known as The American Museum of Natural History in NYC. As the ocean levels rose and the storms increased in force and frequency, much of NYC was submerged underwater and Nonnie’s family found refuge at the museum where her mother used to work. There they survived, growing for food in Central Park and scrounging for medical supplies from the abandoned city stores and hospitals. But when a massive hurricane forces them to flee the museum, Nonnie and her family are faced with the dangers of the open seas, others who are struggling to survive and a fight for limited medical supplies and food as they hope to reach dry land up north.

This story started off a little slow as the background to the novel and the backstories of the characters were developed. Once Nonnie and her family fled the museum, the pace picked up and the plot grew more intriguing. This was an interesting perspective into what could possibly be the fate of many of our coastal cities should we continue to ignore the signs of how humans are destroying our planet.

Thank you to @stmartinspress and @netgalley for an early digital review copy of this novel.

All the Water in the World was a paradox, but I enjoyed it! The things happening around the characters are stress-inducing and life altering, but the inner monologue of the main character is so poetic and metaphorical that it is easy to forget just how dire her circumstances are. The ending felt right and brought hope to the end of the long, perilous journey that we are taken on while reading this book. While the ending doesn't necessarily call for a sequel, I would definitely be interested in reading one, just to see what more Eiren Caffall can do with The World As It Is.

This book is perfect! I have no notes. It honestly felt like I was reading the screenplay to a really in-depth movie. The characters, the narrative, and prose did something for me most books do not. I pray for nothing but positive things for the author and this book.

I love natural disaster films and tales, so I thought I’d love this book. Unfortunately it didn’t click for me. It was very slow and I found myself really bored while reading.

"Literary Thriller" might be one of my new favorite genres! If you loved the movie The Day After Tomorrow, the pictures from that movie will be set in your mind while reading this book. I can definitely see this one becoming a movie one day. So good!

I loved this book. The characters were wonderful and the story compelling. I hoped each character would find a home. I hope there is a sequel. Would be a fantastic tv series.

All the Water in the World was such a strange, moving book, and I am so thrilled I received an ARC of it. I went into it semi-blind and am actually glad that I did: getting to watch Nonie's story unfold with no expectations whatsoever was so thrilling, and I felt completely absorbed in the worldbuilding. I feel like the only apt comparison would be with All the Light we Cannot See -- this book's got a similar blend of intense character study, thrilling plot, and prose with a keen eye towards the natural world. I cannot stress enough how every chapter of this book was such a perfectly crafted vignette; I can't believe I hadn't heard of Caffall's work before this.

All the Water in the World fits neatly in between literary fiction and the growing speculative subgenre cli-fi. Thirteen year old Nonie and her older sister Bix are daughters of scientists who, when the world flooded due to climate change, took refuge in a museum of natural history. Called AMEN by its residents (draw what Biblical parallels from that you will), this museum does an apt job of providing for those who look after it. Nourished by the gardens and educated in medicine by the historical texts there, Nonie and crew seem poised to outlast the apocalypse. But when a hypercane (a supercharged hurricane) floods their refuge, Nonie, Bix, their father, and their father's friend and chief entomologist Keller pile onto a canoe and attempt to make their way to a family farm upstate for shelter. There is no guarantee that the farm will be still standing, and there are dangers aplenty along the way -- both natural and human. But the crew has no choice but to hope, because giving up hope means certain death.

This book felt so fully realized, it was heartbreaking. No little detail goes unnoticed, adding to how dire the stakes are. From the poisonous water around them, made undrinkable by sewage runoff and industrial spillage, to the simple diseases made deadly by lack of antibiotics, this was such a perfectly imaged apocalyptic scenario. And I cared so, so deeply for the characters. I know some readers struggled with Caffall's choice to bounce us back and forth between past and present, but I personally felt it both added urgency and gave us much needed character development. When we're thrust into a life-or-death scenario every second of the book, it's hard to stop and find those moments of growth. Caffall gave us those, and more -- the pauses and rushes of All the Water were so well timed. Like the tides, this book ebbs and flows effortlessly.

I also particularly loved the choice to make Nonie some variety of neurodivergent; seeing how her neurodivergence brushes up against their new world was such an interesting bit of intersectionality. The representation's also very well done, not only for Nonie but for all the characters. Keller in particular is a highlight. And the prose was so beautiful that, if I'd had a print copy, it would've been dog-eared and highlighted and quoted for all eternity. I look forward to reading more of Caffall's work, and I hope that this wins all the accolades, because it so deserves it.

Timely, well-crafted, and moving, All the Water in the World is a stunner.

Many thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Eiren Caffall for gifting me this e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Nonie is the young protagonist of this stark climate-change dystopian future, in which her small community fights to survive and to preserve history--from the roof of the American Museum of Natural History--before a horrific storm sends them fleeing up the Hudson, encountering kindness and nefarious groups in their quest for a new home.

In a dystopian future in which the glaciers have melted, Nonie, a young girl with a gift for feeling the water, coming storms, and weather, lives in a largely deserted New York City with her family.

Their settlement is on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, or "Amen"), and they hunt and gather in Central Park. They must be careful, as packs of feral dogs--and packs of desperate humans, the Lost--will try to take what they can get to survive. Along with her parents' researcher friends, her family helps try to save and further the exhibits of human history and science.

The scenes of Nonie and her sister Bix, who have long been trapped in a confined boundary of existence, wandering the partially destroyed museum and wondering at the history and the world are particularly captivating. I was also struck by the haunting moments of grown-ups sharing the old stories: what it was like to swim (when waters were not deadly with pollution), to pick wild berries, to fly in an airplane, to have easy access to medicines, and more.

But a superstorm (which they deem a "hypercane") floods the city further, and the group must escape up the Hudson. Nonie and her group carry a book holding precious history preserved from Amen, and on their journey they encounter a few communities, each of which has adapted to survive. Some try to help, while others have nefarious intent. It's sometimes tough to tell which is which until it's too late.

This climate-change novel is powerful, disturbing, and, starkly lovely in its stripped-away love and loyalty. The story keeps in the forefront the looming dangers, the fear of disease and ill intent, and the bone-weary fatigue involved in simply fighting to survive--and I couldn't ever forget that the enemy, the deadly monster here, is the human race that destroyed its planet.

The found-family element is a favorite of mine, and the makeshift nature of Caffall's imagined future in All the Water in the World necessitates crafting a family from like-minded survivors. This story was upsetting, fascinating, and wonderfully shaped.

I received a prepublication edition of this title courtesy of St. Martin's Press and NetGalley.

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
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In a dystopian world, the melting of the glaciers has caused extreme flooding in places. Nonie and her family live with a group of survivors on the roof of the American Museum of Natural history. When a superstorm arrives they must flee the city and head in search of a new place.
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What I liked:
-I loved the plot of the story. Dystopian, flooded world, people trying to survive. All really cool ideas for a story.
-I love a good journey in a book. Nonie and her group had a pretty epic journey they made and mostly by a very old and historic canoe.
-There were some parts of the story that were very suspenseful!
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3⭐️⭐️⭐️ I liked this book. The writing jumped a lot between the present and the past and I sort of wish there was a way to differentiate the two better because I felt like I had to really pay attention. Maybe if the past would have been italicized that would have been easier.

In a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by storms and flooding, a small group of people survive in and on top of the American Museum of Natural History. They do their best to preserve the knowledge contained in the museum while trying to survive and care for each other.

I enjoy tales of survival and how some people form new families and communities, while others turn feral and malevolent. I thought the characters and world-building were good here. Recommended.

I thought about this book for days I after I finished it and was really surprised I was able to pick up another book to start soon after.

All the Water in the World is a dystopian novel set in a world where water is essentially taking over. The story starts on the roof of the Museum of Natural History which was so interesting. There are a lot of facts about animals and storms scattered throughout the story and I really enjoyed that.

The beginning was a little confusing due to the story weaving the past in with the present but the main character, whose POV the story is told through, is a child so once I figured out what was going on it made more sense. It took about the whole first chapter.

There are some tough topics addressed in this book with racism and sexual assault being talked about and alluded to. I thought it was very well done and necessary to the story. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes Dystopian novels or has ever wondered what would happen if storms kept evolving to massive proportions

A solid 4 stars for this dystopian novel that is more terrifying than any horror story. Given our country's current political leaders, it's not far off to say that this book is entirely prescient. I liked our young neurodivergent narrator Nonie, but felt like almost all of the other characters were not fully explored (esp Bix). The alternating timelines in chapters also didn't always work for me, and some parts were slow. But overall, I enjoyed (well, enjoyed is not the right word as I was often filled with dread) this adventure-filled story of the horrifying effects of climate change, the power of found family, and all of the details about living in the top floors/roof of the American Museum of Natural History ("Amen") in New York City after the glaciers melted and flooded the city. Here's hoping that this book remains "fiction."

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

I'm not going to say much about this one as I did not find it as interesting as I would have thought. It was very slow to start out but I did notice that the farther I progressed the more interested I became. This book had a lot of potential but it fell a bit short for me.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for an copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you for this ARC! Speculative, cli-fi fiction is one of my favorite genres. This was an interesting take, largely set in NYC and the Hudson Valley. I live in NYC and frequent the AMNH, so it was very easy to visualize the "world as it is now". I found it very interesting that water, the thing that allows for life on earth as we know it, became what was destroying earth. I did think the characters were under developed and the plot meandered along, but I loved the world building that the author created.

I DNF'd this book at about 20%. The premise was interesting, but the structure of the novel undermined the tone that the description of the book suggested. All the Water in the World definitely leaned toward literary rather than thriller, and even though it had the dystopian setting, it lost some of the urgency typical of that subgenre. The time setting alternated too frequently, pulling the reader out of any immediate danger every time something interesting happened. The writing style also made it difficult to read and connect with. While having a neurodivergent character necessitates a distinct cadence, the absence of punctuation could have been used more sparingly. Rather than conveying racing thoughts or a particular speech pattern, it made it seem unedited and hard to follow. There's some good content about preservation and climate change, but it was lost under the incongruent tone and staggered sentence structure.

Caffall spins a fascinating dystopian tale of a young girl trying to survive in a Day-After-Tomorrow-esque world, filled with worsening climate change, floods, tornados, and a civilization that is hanging on by a straw.

"Mother found other mothers for us all along. Her own mother died young. In The World As It Is, she knew she would too."

While the dystopian aspect of the novel initially piqued my interest in this novel, I was surprised by the depth and richness of the character development and interrelationships. This book, while short, is very multifaceted and kept my attention throughout.

I am usually a big fan of short chapters and fast-paced plotlines, but the short chapters here bounced around, with some being in the present time and many being flashbacks. I found this a little disorientating, and during very tense points in the book, I found myself aggravated by having to trudge through an emotional flashback just to get back to the present-time storyline. The ending was also relatively satisfying, but I wish it touched on whatever came of the ever-worsening weather.

That being said, this was still an enjoyable book all around!

"Mother was always pouring this future into me, and I didn't see, until I did. She was my first sea, and she left me this water, waiting all along."

Thank you, NetGalley and St. Martin's Press, for the opportunity to read an advanced reader's copy in exchange for my honest review.

I love dystopian fiction with a dose of cli-fi and with the comps to Station Eleven, I was very intrigued by this one. It was an interesting scenario and I really appreciated what Caffall did, weaving in different people and situations ro make this one a well realized what-if along with some great writing. I absolutely loved the curator angle, in fact I liked it so much that I was very upset to leave the setup and wanted it to be explored a lot more.

My overall thoughts are a bit mixed on this one. The plot starts slow and I do struggle with books that take place on the road sometimes, I can’t always get a great sense of the setting (American Rapture and Sky Full of Elephants were recent reads I had the same problem with, and I’m just now realizing these books all have an apocalyptic theme too) but there is a lot of hardship, hope and loss to discover here.