3.0
Clean Air
ByPublisher Description
In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly.
The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. They created enough pollen to render the air unbreathable, and the world became overgrown.
In the decades since the event known as the Turning, humanity has rebuilt, and Izabel has grown used to the airtight domes that now contain her life. She raises her young daughter, Cami, and attempts to make peace with her mother's death. She tries hard to be satisfied with this safe, prosperous new world, but instead she just feels stuck.
And then the tranquility of her town is shattered. Someone—a serial killer—starts slashing through the domes at night, exposing people to the deadly pollen. At the same time, Cami begins sleep-talking, having whole conversations about the murders that she doesn't remember after she wakes. Izabel becomes fixated on the killer, on both tracking him down and understanding him. What could compel someone to take so many lives after years dedicated to sheer survival, with society finally flourishing again?
Suspenseful and startling, but also poetic and written with a wry, observant humor, this “skillful blend of postapocalyptic science fiction, supernatural murder mystery, and domestic drama is unexpected and entirely engrossing” (Publishers Weekly).
The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. They created enough pollen to render the air unbreathable, and the world became overgrown.
In the decades since the event known as the Turning, humanity has rebuilt, and Izabel has grown used to the airtight domes that now contain her life. She raises her young daughter, Cami, and attempts to make peace with her mother's death. She tries hard to be satisfied with this safe, prosperous new world, but instead she just feels stuck.
And then the tranquility of her town is shattered. Someone—a serial killer—starts slashing through the domes at night, exposing people to the deadly pollen. At the same time, Cami begins sleep-talking, having whole conversations about the murders that she doesn't remember after she wakes. Izabel becomes fixated on the killer, on both tracking him down and understanding him. What could compel someone to take so many lives after years dedicated to sheer survival, with society finally flourishing again?
Suspenseful and startling, but also poetic and written with a wry, observant humor, this “skillful blend of postapocalyptic science fiction, supernatural murder mystery, and domestic drama is unexpected and entirely engrossing” (Publishers Weekly).
Download the free Fable app
Stay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.
Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building tool
Rate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tags
Curate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesStay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building toolRate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tagsCurate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communities82 Reviews
3.0
Soph
Created 17 days agoShare
Report
“ok so i was super interesting when i got this book yesterday, i have never read anything like this and thats so beautiful! yes some of the writing was boring or just didnt flow well, but i think the plot was so cool! like who just thinks of something likes that? and then publishes a dull blown novel!!
i liked how cami was talking to a tree, there was very spiritual aspects in this book all around which i really enjoyed. when humans are in this world of looser rules, unpredictability, and questions i imagine some would turn to the only teaching that would give an answer; nature, the soul.
but yeah, i really enjoyed it. i wish it went more into the spiritual aspects but the murder mystery was thrilling too (but kinda lack lustrous at the end tbh).
also i liked the interrogation it was top tier!!”
Mrs. Elliott
Created 18 days agoShare
Report
Garrett Books
Created about 2 months agoShare
Report
“This books is all over the place.
I really like the premise, and wanted to explore more of the post-apocalyptic elements. Instead we get a very bland murder mystery that ends very anticlimactically.
The characters felt very blah, and I didn’t care about any of them. The dialogue isn’t very organic, and there are a lot of weird extraneous details that are included that I think the author thought added verisimilitude but just make the book feel weird and not well edited.
It felt like this was a first draft that needed a lot of work and developmental help. I’m pretty bummed because the premise sounds fantastic. I wish she’d explored more of the world building.”Samrenehart
Created 2 months agoShare
Report
Brooklyn
Created 2 months agoShare
Report
About Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake’s novel Naamah won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Blake is also the author of the poetry collections Mr. West and Let’s Not Live on Earth. In 2013, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in the UK.
Other books by Sarah Blake
Start a Book Club
Start a public or private book club with this book on the Fable app today!FAQ
Do I have to buy the ebook to participate in a book club?
Why can’t I buy the ebook on the app?
How is Fable’s reader different from Kindle?
Do you sell physical books too?
Are book clubs free to join on Fable?
How do I start a book club with this book on Fable?
Save to a list
0
/30
0
/100
Private List