Reviews

Fauna by Pablo Strauss, Christiane Vadnais

madelinerossell's review against another edition

4.0

It can be incredibly uncomfortable at times and it certainly won't be for everyone but the use of language is brilliantly unsettling and that in itself is commendable.

sarah684's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

mars_clutter's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

vizira's review against another edition

3.0

a bizarre dream of a book. strong [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403941587l/17934530._SX50_.jpg|24946895] and [b:Fever Dream|30763882|Fever Dream|Samanta Schweblin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1471279721l/30763882._SX50_.jpg|42701168] vibes

saint_eleanor's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

Ok i see the vision 🧐
I loved the imagery and the mysteriousness of it all, but i wish it had been a bit more fleshed out. There wasn’t anything for me to hold on to, each time a character was vulnerable and i felt like i could relate to them the author cuts away to a different thing. 
#ecohorror #biohorror #lgbtqia+ 

a_r_e_l_i_c's review against another edition

4.0

16 musty aroma
18 brackish smell, mud & chlorine
29 earthy smell
39 aromatic scent of cedar with pungent notes of leaves & insects rotting
—-smell of warm flesh
48 ancient scent of trees
52 mint & sugary water
64 formalin & disinfectant
80 peach-scented bubble bath
—afterscent of limestone
87 scent of evergreens stings the lungs
97 tangy smell of sweat
100 popcorn & cheap draft
114 gentle scent of laundry soap

colorfulleo92's review against another edition

4.0

The audiobook was 3 hours and 1 Min but damn did it pack the punch. A near future world with some serious climate changes. Vivedly told and very engaging and made me crave more stories like this.

nataliedjud's review against another edition

3.0

wack

pearloz's review against another edition

3.0

Short environmental/eco horror (horror-lite?). These semi-linked stories follow, vaguely, Laura (though she's not in every story), as she finds, traces, studies a new parasite that attacks humans and non-humans alike, causes them to mutate (some are...fish people? Laura becomes a...bird, I think?) rapidly, but throughout there's this impending sense of doom, like she's just noting how the world is gonna end for people as we know it, and not to have a chance to save it. These brief snapshots allude to a greater fracas in the world, each snapshot exhibits tropes of the post-apocalyptic fiction genre: there's the religious fanatics that try to recreate biblical scenes (the thing w/ the lion cage), there's cult leader and his followers, the desperate scientist, and then, in perhaps a new trope related to eco/enviro horror/apocalypse lit, we get a character in two separate chapters, one where he's a normal dude, one where it ends with him in water w/ a dorsal fin, and our scientist, whenever she appears in a new chapter, is farther along in her evolution to becoming a bird (those are rapid evolutions). Sold blast of fiction.

allisonnaut's review against another edition

3.5

Not a bad book by any means, but definitely weird. Very well written descriptions. Poetic almost.