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A review by bookaroundandfindout
Thrum by Meg Smitherman
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Oh my god what an arousingly creepy mind fuck book!
I LOVED IT.
Ami is lost in space. She wakes up to her crew dead (they never woke up from their sleep statis), no fuel, no communicator, and the vastness of space before her with the reality that everyone she loved on Earth is already dead.
So yeah, her psychological well being is probably not the greatest right.
By a miracle she is able to hail a ship nearby with a short comm distress signal. As she leaves the ship she feels some excitement and a lot of fear.
Alien life, how exciting! That is...until she sees it. Until she sees <i>him</i>.
Dorian Grey.
He looks like a human, except not...something is so off about him -asides from his painfully beautiful looks. Something is off about everything, the entire ship. And Ami finds herself wondering who the hell is he and where the hell is she and what the hell is going on with this ship.
This book totally creeped me out and I am so HAPPY about that! Meg's writing is fantastic, keeping it simple and really leading the reader around in circles making us go crazy along with Ami, all the while keeping us on our toes about this tension between Ami and Dorian. The question of what is reality is the main plot theme in this book and I found it enthralling. She has me curled up n a ball frantically reading because I NEEDED to know what happened to Ami's crew and her ship and is Ami going to be okay?? I felt horrified, turned on, creeped out, scared, curious, wigged out completely so she did a great job.
As her debut horror/scifi/sort-of romanatasy novel, I am so impressed. I'm excited to read her other work and hope she keeps writing more in this scifi world!
I LOVED IT.
Ami is lost in space. She wakes up to her crew dead (they never woke up from their sleep statis), no fuel, no communicator, and the vastness of space before her with the reality that everyone she loved on Earth is already dead.
So yeah, her psychological well being is probably not the greatest right.
By a miracle she is able to hail a ship nearby with a short comm distress signal. As she leaves the ship she feels some excitement and a lot of fear.
Alien life, how exciting! That is...until she sees it. Until she sees <i>him</i>.
Dorian Grey.
He looks like a human, except not...something is so off about him -asides from his painfully beautiful looks. Something is off about everything, the entire ship. And Ami finds herself wondering who the hell is he and where the hell is she and what the hell is going on with this ship.
This book totally creeped me out and I am so HAPPY about that! Meg's writing is fantastic, keeping it simple and really leading the reader around in circles making us go crazy along with Ami, all the while keeping us on our toes about this tension between Ami and Dorian. The question of what is reality is the main plot theme in this book and I found it enthralling. She has me curled up n a ball frantically reading because I NEEDED to know what happened to Ami's crew and her ship and is Ami going to be okay?? I felt horrified, turned on, creeped out, scared, curious, wigged out completely so she did a great job.
As her debut horror/scifi/sort-of romanatasy novel, I am so impressed. I'm excited to read her other work and hope she keeps writing more in this scifi world!