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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
Too political and (idk the right word)
C'est sans doute plutôt un 3.5 qu'un 4/5 (en réalité, je me torture sur les notes, je suis vraiment nul pour quantifier mon appréciation...), mais c'est un roman que je recommande, si on cherche un texte choc unapologetically militant. Il faut être prévenu que certaines scènes peuvent mettre mal à l'aise.
J'ai beaucoup aimé l'écriture, qui porte l'histoire avec brio. Les personnages sont bien construits, les situations bien rendues. Il n'y a aucune longueur, et pourtant, il y a des passages calmes, mais ils sont justement intéressants et très agréables à suivre.
Les thèmes abordés sont vraiment forts, et je suis vraiment heureux de voir cette littérature queer, noire et provocante se développer.
Toutefois, je me suis interrogé sur le vraisemblable de certains moments, et la fin, trop rapide, m'a déçu. Il y a une superbe scène vers la toute fin du roman, et ensuite, des événements vraiment importants s'enchaînent trop vite, et un gros problème n'est pas résolu (). Cet accéléré nuit à l'ensemble. Je n'ai pas réussi à y croire, et c'est dommage.
A titre purement personnel, je préfère les romans avec plus de personnages, moins "resserrés", mais l'ambiance valait vraiment le coup, et c'est toujours appréciable de sortir de sa "zone de confort".
Je lirai en tout cas d'autres romans de Rivers Solomon, c'est un-e auteurice que je veux découvrir davantage.
J'ai beaucoup aimé l'écriture, qui porte l'histoire avec brio. Les personnages sont bien construits, les situations bien rendues. Il n'y a aucune longueur, et pourtant, il y a des passages calmes, mais ils sont justement intéressants et très agréables à suivre.
Les thèmes abordés sont vraiment forts, et je suis vraiment heureux de voir cette littérature queer, noire et provocante se développer.
Toutefois, je me suis interrogé sur le vraisemblable de certains moments, et la fin, trop rapide, m'a déçu. Il y a une superbe scène vers la toute fin du roman, et ensuite, des événements vraiment importants s'enchaînent trop vite, et un gros problème n'est pas résolu (
Spoiler
comment Vern va-t-elle pouvoir vivre tranquillement ? comment va réagir le gouvernement ?A titre purement personnel, je préfère les romans avec plus de personnages, moins "resserrés", mais l'ambiance valait vraiment le coup, et c'est toujours appréciable de sortir de sa "zone de confort".
Je lirai en tout cas d'autres romans de Rivers Solomon, c'est un-e auteurice que je veux découvrir davantage.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
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
Ummm well that was an adventure the first 2/3 of the book was amazing. Poetic, well plotted, and written the last 1/3 seemed rushed and random. It just seemed like so much new information was added in the last part of it. Just didn’t really flow together well as the first 2/3s did. Overall was a good book if not weird. I enjoyed reading it, it was definitely an adventure.
In them, the possibilities seem endless. They are where wild things are, and I like to think the wild always winds. In the woods, it doesn't matter that there is no patch of earth that has not known bone, known blood, knwon rot. It feeds from that. It grows the trees. The mushrooms. It turns sorrows into flowers.Vern escapes Cainland - a cult lead by her abusive husband - to break out into the unknown with her two children, pregnant at 15. After four years, her and her two children Feral and Howling, are forced towards civilisation by Vern's transformation into something unhuman.
This novel is ambitious, weaving trauma with Vern's experience as a black intersex albino woman, a survivor of cult experiments, sexual assault and being a teenage mother literally being othered by the medicine she has received at Cainland. However, the prose lost me at times, meandering, Vern's point of view presented in such an adult manner that you oftentimes forget she is a teenager (hell, if I hadn't read a review of the novel afterward I would have missed that part altogether).
What I liked most is the presentation of nature (for obvious, plot-related reasons). There is a lot here to enjoy, from simple creature-feature transformation to the social commentary. It did not mesh a 100%, but I cannot wait to read more by Solomon.
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-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
genuinely the best book i've ever read, has a beautiful exploration of queer and black themes and identities
Not a bad read by any accounts. It started off strong in the beginning, and it had a very odd (but cool) twist by the end. Would definitely recommend it.
Spoilers here:
The fungus inside of Vern reminded me so, so much of Resident Evil Biohazard and Village. There were heavy, heavy parallels between this fungus and the mutamycete. From the healing factors down to the hive mind mentality and data storage capabilities.
Just a neat little tie (which probably wasn't meant to be a tie) and quite possibly has a lot to do with the properties of fungus.
Spoilers here:
The fungus inside of Vern reminded me so, so much of Resident Evil Biohazard and Village. There were heavy, heavy parallels between this fungus and the mutamycete. From the healing factors down to the hive mind mentality and data storage capabilities.
Just a neat little tie (which probably wasn't meant to be a tie) and quite possibly has a lot to do with the properties of fungus.