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A Botanical Daughter
by Noah Medlock
“Yet she knew in her heart that her strange yearnings made her belong here, in the queer forest of botanical oddities and human misfits. It hurt so much to be pushed away even from such a special sanctuary.”
•This book was the epitome of "no plot, just vibes."
•I wrote an annotation that said: delightfully macabre.
•I was immediately reminded of T. Kingfisher because of the quirkiness but the atmosphere felt reminiscent of Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood.
•The interpersonal conflicts felt very surface level, which the story underwhelming as a whole considering the stakes weren't high to begin with.
•I really, really wanted to love this but unfortunately, the plot lacked urgency and the premise just fell a little short.
“A wonderful thing about taxidermy is that it transforms the chaos of life and death into perfect stasis. When captured in art, the subject ceases to be a creature of unpredictability, of yearning to one day be. It becomes fixed and finite. Its ‘becoming’ is finally and permanently completed.”
“But her body would be the host of this congregation of plants and fungi. It would be an abandoned cathedral, once more filled with spirit.”
•This book was the epitome of "no plot, just vibes."
•I wrote an annotation that said: delightfully macabre.
•I was immediately reminded of T. Kingfisher because of the quirkiness but the atmosphere felt reminiscent of Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood.
•The interpersonal conflicts felt very surface level, which the story underwhelming as a whole considering the stakes weren't high to begin with.
•I really, really wanted to love this but unfortunately, the plot lacked urgency and the premise just fell a little short.
“A wonderful thing about taxidermy is that it transforms the chaos of life and death into perfect stasis. When captured in art, the subject ceases to be a creature of unpredictability, of yearning to one day be. It becomes fixed and finite. Its ‘becoming’ is finally and permanently completed.”
“But her body would be the host of this congregation of plants and fungi. It would be an abandoned cathedral, once more filled with spirit.”