Cascade

Cascade, Book I of The Sleep of Reason
Rachel A. Rosen
What does magic want?
A generation has passed since the Cascade transformed the world, smashing the old political order and infesting the wilderness with demons and shriekgrass. As with the climate crisis that caused it, emergent magic proved lucky for some, a disaster for many others, and a source of hope and dread for everyone else.

In Ottawa, a scandal-plagued government clings to power, kept afloat by the manipulations of its precognitive rainman, Ian Mallory. But when his predictions signal only catastrophe ahead, the magic-loathing photojournalist Tobias Fletcher, land rights activist Jonah Augustine, his ex-wife, climate scientist Blythe Augustine, and emoji-spell wielding intern Sujay Krishnamurthy must overcome ideology and bureaucracy to save a future from a present whose agenda spells only doom.