Reviews

Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

luetob's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

maartjeida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

belovedacquaintance's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

schuster_s's review against another edition

5.0

“You could close your eyes forever and still never be anywhere but where you had always been” p317

Wow what an amazing novel. A wonderful finish to the trilogy that I never saw coming. Finch is a perfect noir style book that follows a detective as he tries to solve an unsolvable mystery. The grey caps run the city and everything is in shambles as they try to complete the towers.

I loved the writing, the characters, and the plot. All coming together to put the series to rest in the best way possible.

maddivillines's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

linneasofia's review against another edition

challenging hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

just_a_kodiak's review

5.0

Vivid and layered and vicious. The culmination of the ambergris books is a triumph, a masterpiece of world building in which everything you know is built up in glorious, brutal detail, and then ripped apart to make room for something new. 

gioclair's review

5.0

Arcimboldo painted portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, fruit, sea creatures and tree roots. In the third novel set in the universe of Ambergris, Jeff VanderMeer depicts characters infected with fungal alterations that make them hybrids between humans and gray caps, a race that holds the dying city, erecting mushroom buildings and wiping out all resistance. Ambergris has her collaborators, the Partials, halfway in their metamorphosis. The citizens worship a hero, the Lady in Blue, but she's been silent for too long. In the middle of this, John Finch, a reluctant detective, must solve a case no one wants to see solved in the traditional way.

FINCH goes beyond the fascination of a unique setting. This story is more than a journey in weird fantasy. The novel explores the theme of life and death, using the mycelium as the metaphor of life sprouting from decay. Like Finch's partner, already dead, forever alive.

A book that will stick in my mind. A great read.

apocryphal_goose's review

mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

brightfire's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0