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A review by kaylatee
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
So excruciatingly slow with a narrator that is unreliable and unpleasant. The whole shebang feels very pointless by the end.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Murder
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Physical abuse
Minor: Animal death
- Lots of gun violence
- Main character shares anecdotes from her childhood of her emotionally and physically abusive grandfather and mother who suffered bouts of psychosis. Not graphic, but still upsetting
- Taxidermy is a main subject 2 taxidermy statues also get destroyed by humans
- A fire in a warehouse destroys a bunch of taxidermy statues. Narrator describes this in fair detail