A review by aeeklund
The Lamb by Lucy Rose

dark reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This one is definitely not going to be for everyone. Should you seek to read it, be sure, based on the synopsis, that you can handle the subject material - this isn't a book to be taken on lightly. I think readers who sit squarely in the center of the Venn diagram of fans of Tender is the Flesh and fans of Nightbitch will understand and appreciate (and devour - no pun intended. okay, some pun intended.) this strange, feral, brambly, hungry little book. 

Because this book is all about hunger. It is all about devouring. It is all about the meat and the gore and the gristle and the ligament stretch of adolescence and motherhood and denial and giving in. It is descriptions of nature so beautiful your heart cracks open, it is characters seeking for connection so desperately they can taste it on their tongues, it is buckets of blood in corners as eyes fade to black, and it is all so very, very hungry.

I think Lucy Rose watched Hannibal, looked at the new mothers around her, and said, you men know nothing. 

This book does a lot. It does it strangely. It does it wildly. It does it bloodily, and heartbreakingly, and effectively.

And you don't understand the title until the very, very end.
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