Reviews - A Botanical Daughter

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A Botanical Daughter

Noah Medlock

3.68 AVERAGE

lndsmcarter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

sonofadam55's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jenn_the_unicorn's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

a1eena's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense 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

senqin's review against another edition

3.0

Something deep inside them both erupted, and all they could see was beauty, and each other, and iridescent algal green.

★★★

There are not nearly enough reimaginings of Frankenstein out there! Not to mention queer ones or even those that really play with the body/biological horror aspect

ohcorkyboyy's review

1.0

Two strange queer dudes that have nothing in common, just the fact that they’re both odd. So that gave us this trash book! Thank you.

ohallows's review against another edition

4.5

objectively, this was all over the place and the concept could have been interested in a much more interesting way but I had so much fun reading it that I'm choosing to turn off the more severe critical thinking parts of my brain for the time being. I had a lot of fun. Simon and Gregor are deeply weird terrible people (affectionate) and

I hope jenny and constance are fingerblasting each other in the afterlife

dolljointed's review against another edition

2.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ocie's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny tense 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

holly_pop's review

3.0

The horror in this book would have been better if the story had leaned more into exploring the actual most horrifying thing about it (imo), which was the NONCONSENSUAL USE of a dead young woman's BODY to grow a plant-woman as a hubris-filled man's experiment, and then having her best friend/unfulfilled lover unwittingly tend to the plant-woman WHILE ACTIVELY CONCEALING FROM HER THAT THIS WAS HER DEAD FRIEND! Basically the continuous infantilization and exploitation of the two young women was not explored deeply enough. Also, all the other themes (queer relationships, jealously, found/created family, emotional suppression, art as coping skill) were all over the place and none of them really came to the forefront. Interesting concept, messy execution. I wouldn't discourage someone from reading this, it was still diverting, but definitely could have been better.

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