meagan_young 's review for:

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

3.0

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I’m a big fan of VanderMeer’s other books, so this one was a letdown. It was so slow moving and confusing. The writing style was strange and minimalistic, most sentences didn’t have a subject. It was hard to follow at some points and there was not much to hold on to. I enjoyed his world building, as always, but that was more of the background of this book rather than the forefront. There wasn’t really a character to root for, and the payoff at the end wasn’t worth the journey to get there... pretty disappointed. The only thing to take away from this book was to be aware of our impact on the environment, but there are more interesting books to invest your time in than this one unfortunately.