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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
“Assume I’m dead by the time you read this.” This is the first hand account of Jane telling her journey, which starts with her receiving a key with a note, that leads to a storage unit with a hummingbird and another mysterious note. Researching who gave her the note and why, she falls down the rabbit hole of conspiracies dealing with the illegal animal trade and conservationists fighting against it. Will she find who send her the original note? Will she find an answer to save humanity from Climate Change and pandemics? Or will she find a way to make it all worse?
This was definitely something. Very much stream of consciousness, and filled with excessive physical descriptions, while at the same time not always clear on what people are doing or what exactly is happening. It’s set up like a mystery-thriller, but the leaps from minimal clues to answers were often a little to far to be believable. And really, the focus of the book is on the various little diatribes about how much humanity is harming the environment and the world must be saved from us. This is a book for someone who likes meandering “deep thoughts” scattered amongst random action. But it just didn’t work for me at all.
This was definitely something. Very much stream of consciousness, and filled with excessive physical descriptions, while at the same time not always clear on what people are doing or what exactly is happening. It’s set up like a mystery-thriller, but the leaps from minimal clues to answers were often a little to far to be believable. And really, the focus of the book is on the various little diatribes about how much humanity is harming the environment and the world must be saved from us. This is a book for someone who likes meandering “deep thoughts” scattered amongst random action. But it just didn’t work for me at all.