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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Weird
As soon as I read the words "the man shoots phosphorescent semen into the water", i knew this wasnt for me
As soon as I read the words "the man shoots phosphorescent semen into the water", i knew this wasnt for me
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Pregnancy
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit
Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“They had followed him of their own volition to this remote outpost - to mitigate the risk of contagion, escape the hysteria gripping the city, live out the last days before their extinction. The choice hadn't seemed irrevocable. Then they found themselves on an island, surrounded by water, stripped of any possibility of leaving.
They're never going back.”
They're never going back.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Sexual assault
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-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
Ce roman est aussi étrange que les créatures dont il nous présente des bribes d'histoires.
Les premiers chapitres m'ont complètement décontenancée mais je me suis finalement laissée porter dans les méandres de ces histoires sombres et poisseuses où la science devient fiction.
C'est étrange et c'est dérangeant aussi, peut-être parce que l'autrice questionne ici la limite entre le rêve et le réel, et entre l'humain et l'animal ; on oscille en permanence le long de cette frontière.
En conclusion, une lecture malaisante dans le contenu, déconcertante dans la forme, mais loin d'être dans intérêt.
Les premiers chapitres m'ont complètement décontenancée mais je me suis finalement laissée porter dans les méandres de ces histoires sombres et poisseuses où la science devient fiction.
C'est étrange et c'est dérangeant aussi, peut-être parce que l'autrice questionne ici la limite entre le rêve et le réel, et entre l'humain et l'animal ; on oscille en permanence le long de cette frontière.
En conclusion, une lecture malaisante dans le contenu, déconcertante dans la forme, mais loin d'être dans intérêt.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Weird climate horror that would probably appeal to people who like Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. I enjoyed the writing style but there was some very graphic animal cruelty that felt unnecessary and added almost nothing to the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A slim, disquieting volume absolutely dripping with style: wet, humid, damp, and mossy. An opaque ecological force is frothing at the edges of sick rivers and slithering under the skin of once-human bodies, blurring boundaries between old and new. The warm eggs of our undoing are incubating in ten dizzying vignettes that capture the omen of malady, the fragility of our biology, and the disorientation of climate change. Light on plot but soaking with mood and somatic language—to be devoured in a heatwave or thunderstorm.
This is an extraordinarily poetic book about a world that is so familiar and unfamiliar and fabulous (though not in an enchanting way) (though there is a "sinister" enchantment here). I listened to it on audible but bought the book because of its extraordinary beauty: font, cover, lettering, plates and incredibly disconcerting progression. Yes. If you are arrested by the cover, buy the book and prepare yourself for a ecosplendor of a truly awesome scope. Spoiler: Humans are fauna too, just as you suspected. Oh and mutate. Mutate.
I hadnt been reading much during Covid and then this. What a reentry.
I hadnt been reading much during Covid and then this. What a reentry.