BookBrowse Reviews Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

This book begins with a bombastic premise. Seemingly fed up with the heating planet, the world's animals have launched a revolution against humans. Rats swarm city streets while once gentle cats and dogs go wild and attack their owners. As humanity is forced indoors for safety, billionaire Roderick Maeve steps in with a solution. He funds the creation of a machine that uses a special sound wave to instantly kill every non-human creature on Earth. While some people are relieved that the animals are gone, others are devastated. Roderick, convinced of his role as savior, announces that all hope is not lost. He's commissioned a genius physicist to build a time machine that will not just bring back the animals, but solve climate change by introducing solar panels during the Industrial Revolution.

Despite its concept-heavy premise, this is a surprisingly character-driven story. Against ...