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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2.5. The first half was really promising- her infantilisation of the world and abuse felt valid and real when we were seeing it through a child’s perspective, but the second half kind of under cut all that with how detached and absurdist it became. Like just so bizarre and deranged at the end, I guess it was fun how committed she was to the bit but my disbelief struggled to be that suspended.
dark
fast-paced
Killing your abuser with a scythe isn't always the dream you think it is.
Earthlings was a disturbing book on many levels. When warned for a "trigger warning for everything" by my friend, Will, I should have listened. This book was horrific to get through and such an incredible deep look into a person's grotesque psyche that I found it hard to look away. Although reading a book in public is common, trying to get through the last 100 pages of Earthlings on a plane was almost traumatic. The potential for someone to look over and see the cannibalism that was on my page.
The sad thing about Earthlings, I think, is that Natsuki, despite what happened, is never given a happy ending or happiness or fixed. She ends the story have eaten human flesh, having ran away from society, and destroyed herself. Granted, she had some catharsis in being able to taste again and hear from her ear again (a mouth being described as "destroyed" has still shaken me to my core, I think) but that only comes after murdering two elderly people and eating their flesh. She is not given a happy ending, she is given, truly, a horrifying downward spiral that, by the last sentence of the book, has not ended.
It was a truly just incredibly sad story, layered in such a thick film of filth and destruction - a horrifyingly depraved internal destruction of the self, morally and physically, and an equal external destruction. I think this book will haunt me for a long time.
Earthlings was a disturbing book on many levels. When warned for a "trigger warning for everything" by my friend, Will, I should have listened. This book was horrific to get through and such an incredible deep look into a person's grotesque psyche that I found it hard to look away. Although reading a book in public is common, trying to get through the last 100 pages of Earthlings on a plane was almost traumatic. The potential for someone to look over and see the cannibalism that was on my page.
The sad thing about Earthlings, I think, is that Natsuki, despite what happened, is never given a happy ending or happiness or fixed. She ends the story have eaten human flesh, having ran away from society, and destroyed herself. Granted, she had some catharsis in being able to taste again and hear from her ear again (a mouth being described as "destroyed" has still shaken me to my core, I think) but that only comes after murdering two elderly people and eating their flesh. She is not given a happy ending, she is given, truly, a horrifying downward spiral that, by the last sentence of the book, has not ended.
It was a truly just incredibly sad story, layered in such a thick film of filth and destruction - a horrifyingly depraved internal destruction of the self, morally and physically, and an equal external destruction. I think this book will haunt me for a long time.
Crazyyyyy, made me think a lot about the body’s response to trauma but then it got real freaky so I was just thinking about aliens
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book reached a level of weird that I personally could not handle. I was disturbed from the first mention of incest and should’ve stopped there because it only got much, much worse.
dark
tense
medium-paced
howwwwww strannggeeeeeeeee............... in some ways i enjoyed more than convenience store woman for how it leaned into the disgustingness and absurdity of being nonhuman but also less because the characters themselves are further from humanity in this book, but the themes are quite similar!