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Tiffany Morris has made a mighty fine atmospheric eco-horror novella. Blending art creation with death, grief and life while also having nightmare creatures is a beautiful concoction and it deserves witnessing. Highly recommended.

k_nandezzz's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

titalindaslibrary's review against another edition

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dark hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.5

I was not expecting such an impactful novella, but I should have known there was a reason I put it on my TBR! Whoever influenced me to read this, thank you 🙏🏼

The central theme (the role of death and its responding grief) was executed so well. Not to mention the writing?? Finding out this author also writes poetry made complete sense. There are several quotes I just had to highlight, such as these:

“…drinking its way through her veins, her grief a chlorophyll feeding her and transforming her in the devastation of light.”

“The mental wound, the soul wound, though, was nebulous. An infinite tumbling of brackish water, a rust oxidizing memories. A possession of rot.”

"We fear grief, but grief is just the animal experience of time.”

I really enjoyed this read (and my first buddy read too! Yay!) and look forward to checking out more of Tiffany’s work.

isabelleharris's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious

4.0

bjlinard's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

thebookishunicorn's review against another edition

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4.0

"...a call to understand that you, too, are nature, and nature loves above all else transmutation, and impermanence, and creation."

emperorcupcake's review against another edition

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3.0

I like a good weird, literary horror but this started out so... ponderous? that I thought it might be too literary-y for me and almost DNFed. And yeah, hardly anything actually happens in this book. There's a lot of ponderings and meditations on grief and descriptions of various shades of green. But by the end I was into it. There's some cool body horror and great atmosphere and I absolutely loved how this book dealt with grief and the subject of death in general. Very death positive, which was refreshing.

This is a lot of metaphor and description and inner thoughts with pretty much no plot, but I like where it ended up.

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