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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A Midwest gothic novel, it’s dark, atmospheric, feminist, and set in the land where my people hail from (the Rust Belt), so I loved that about it, too.
Phoebe Shaw has returned to Denton Street, Cleveland, decades after she left after the events of the summer of 1980 and the transformation of the Rust Maidens. As she slowly reconnects with her family and the place she left behind, the events of that summer come to the forefront. In 1980 Phoebe was an angry young woman, priming herself to leave the decaying city and its suffocating people, when her best friend and four other girls began a disturbing transformation, literally becoming creatures of rust and decay. The book builds to the revelation of what happens to the girls and how Phoebe deals with it, while Phoebe in the present still struggles to come to terms with it.
Horror, but also a dark literary fantasy. I thought it was brilliant with a deeply engaging narrator who's understandably angry, depressed and perhaps guilty and grieving. The plight of the Rust Maidens themselves has elements of body horror, but in some ways their transformation is no less horrific than the fates that they were facing in the decaying rust belt anyway, and certainly not as horrifying as the worst of human nature that is brought out in the people around them who don't understand what's going on.
Packed with ideas and emotion for its relatively short length and I strongly recommend it.
Horror, but also a dark literary fantasy. I thought it was brilliant with a deeply engaging narrator who's understandably angry, depressed and perhaps guilty and grieving. The plight of the Rust Maidens themselves has elements of body horror, but in some ways their transformation is no less horrific than the fates that they were facing in the decaying rust belt anyway, and certainly not as horrifying as the worst of human nature that is brought out in the people around them who don't understand what's going on.
Packed with ideas and emotion for its relatively short length and I strongly recommend it.
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Atmospheric reading for an October weekend in Cleveland, for sure.
If I could give this book a hundred stars, I would.
The writing flows like water. The story is mind-blowing. I wish I could read this book forever.
The writing flows like water. The story is mind-blowing. I wish I could read this book forever.
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Le daría 3’5 estrellas. Buena premisa, buen comienzo y desarrollo de la historia pero me ha fallado un poco el final. Me esperaba más. Pero la historia me ha gustado mucho