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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Overall, the story was interesting and kept me reading. It was a bit confusing to follow, but that might have been my fault for choosing the audiobook and listening before bed so I’ll leave that alone.
I’m not sure I enjoyed having three parts, I think it would have been a little easier getting to know each character as they were experiencing the pandemic concurrently. I kept forgetting who was who, and I’m very unsure about why baby Gregory was named after Erin’s fiancé since I think Savannah is the one who suggested it? What did I miss?
Parts 1 and 3 were much stronger than Part 2. I’m not sure what the hyper sexuality of the Archivists or having one of the characters be a sex worker added to the story. It seemed like it was just there for the hell of it. This isn’t spice, this is just gory sex. So, if that’s your thing.. power to you - you’ll enjoy this.
Another thing that I’m really having a hard time rationalizing is why it was necessary to have the source of the virus be from an Asian country. I feel like Covid brought a giant wave of racism against all Asians that really hurt a lot of people and businesses. We had enough of that in real life, do we really need to perpetuate the problem in fiction? It could have been anything - but the author chose to have the source be a food item from Japan. That really rubbed me the wrong way.
I’m not sure I enjoyed having three parts, I think it would have been a little easier getting to know each character as they were experiencing the pandemic concurrently. I kept forgetting who was who, and I’m very unsure about why baby Gregory was named after Erin’s fiancé since I think Savannah is the one who suggested it? What did I miss?
Parts 1 and 3 were much stronger than Part 2. I’m not sure what the hyper sexuality of the Archivists or having one of the characters be a sex worker added to the story. It seemed like it was just there for the hell of it. This isn’t spice, this is just gory sex. So, if that’s your thing.. power to you - you’ll enjoy this.
Another thing that I’m really having a hard time rationalizing is why it was necessary to have the source of the virus be from an Asian country. I feel like Covid brought a giant wave of racism against all Asians that really hurt a lot of people and businesses. We had enough of that in real life, do we really need to perpetuate the problem in fiction? It could have been anything - but the author chose to have the source be a food item from Japan. That really rubbed me the wrong way.
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
This is exactly my kind of horror, by which I mean Queer, twisted, gory, surreal, meaningful, tantalizing, and disturbing.
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Grotesque and fun for it. Always went left field plot wise. I wonder if the middle character was always intended to have a viewpoint - seemed out of place and has a weird moment about killing it's only black character, played off as humour?
Long COVID or chronic illness in general as a monstrous problem was fun and hit close to home.
Long COVID or chronic illness in general as a monstrous problem was fun and hit close to home.
dark
Starts off great, then quickly devolves into a brainless (pun intended) mess. Seems like the author wrote the first third with purpose, and for the rest of it just threw a bunch of gross nonsense simply for shock value, and that’s coming from someone who loves gross nonsense. But it stopped being a story and moved into this weird passive narration of just explaining what’s happening instead of showing me, making all the stuff that could have been cool very rushed and stupid. Also, “thine”? Really?