A review by pjgal22
A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington

3.0

This book seemed to be slowly building toward some sort of redemption for Billy, but by the time I was 30 pages from the end, I realized there really weren’t enough pages left for anything but disappointment. It’s not that the ending was unbelievable, it’s just that it made everything that had come before seem kind of pointless. Why did I need to explore these people’s hopes, fears and dreams if it was all going to come to naught? Perhaps what bothered me most was the way that nature, arguably a character in its own right, wound up being just a painted backdrop, pretty to look at but with no real power to redeem or save anyone. And what was the deal with Megan’s disappearance? I still can’t figure out the purpose of that unresolved side plot...