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What I do want to tell you is that the worldbuilding in ''The White Rose'' is immense. I loved the scene setting - from the power of the jungle reclaiming itself in what was South America, to the takeover of organised crime in the devastated United States of Eurasia - everything has been thought through and is not only credible but beautifully realised, threading through and giving purpose and drive to the plot overlaying it. The scariest thing is that all seems so possible. Unstable climates lead to unstable societies - this we already know, but could something like the White Rose actually happen in the near future? It's a great topic for speculative fiction and a worry for all of us in our real lives.
There's a lot of action and a fast pace and the writing is muscular and vivid. And you get to the end of almost five hundred pages before you even know it. I think there is much more room in this dystopian world for more stories and I hope Dave Bains Dave Baines writes some.
Recommended.