A review by etosaurus
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 All I am is an empty shell. I look all right from a distance, but up close there’s nothing there, nothing behind the pretty whorls and brittle exterior. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

A central plot point in this book is a virus that attacks the respiratory system and has a high, sudden mortality rate, and the main character's mother also died of a sudden illness. Additionally, on the subject of anti-vax:

while I do not believe that the author herself is anti-vax, and this book well pre-dates COVID, another central plot point involves foregoing the vaccine in an attempt to take control of one's future / no longer live in fear and to forge connectedness with the world. This was concerning/offputting to me because of the way it echo'd some antivax sentiments.