Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

2 reviews

ptomatodactylus's review

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Difficult to follow and process through audiobook format, lots of references and dates that I’d want to flip back and forth to review but was unable to. 
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lolajh's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A confusing and beautiful mess! Adolescent women in a post-apocalyptic world? Love it!!! And the variety in the perspectives, with Kora being right in the thick of the flu
whilst also being a descendant of the person who caused it
and Kirilow being so far away from it in the beginning with a mutated species of humans that directly rely on each other to survive, are only female and reproduce by parthenogenesis!!! Honestly the Grist sisters in whole were just so interesting, I would’ve loved for it to delve into gender and how it would be experienced so different with the complete absence of men, but honestly I get why the author didn’t; the nonchalantness of women being so predominant in their species had such a wonderful effect in itself.

I don’t know if I’m fully satisfied with the ending
with it being so open and will-they-won’t-they regarding Persephone’s state and what was going on, if they were all in their uploaded states or this was their actual being (maybe it was obvious but I didn’t understand a clear answer to that lol)
but the journey to get there was enjoyable enough to not worry about it too much. I love how the plot never had a straight and predictable path and always twisted and turned every single chapter, I’m so sad this isn’t a series 😫 In love with this world.
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