A review by kevinhendricks
Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

3.0

This is a very trippy novel where the characters kept changing every chapter or so—literally shifting from being two male lovers to being a male and female lover to being a brother and sister, etc. They kept similar names and traits, but the story kept shifting gears. It's a bizarre mystery that's not really explained until the end, and it made for a weird reading experience. The first third or so was hard to get through, but then it started getting more engaging. There's a post-apocalytpic, alien-invasion vibe, though you never quite know for sure what's going on. Very experimental, though I'm not sure how successful it was.