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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
Big DNF for me. Made it halfway. I found it all incredibly depressing bc I am the type of person who thinks about ecological collapse pretty constantly, and reading about it as well was pretty rough. Loads of animal harm.
I didn't get that it was set in a dystopian future? Everything seemed reasonable, maybe near future with some drone action but really, not far off. Hated the main character who is probably a sociopath and just... why does she do things? No idea. No idea what her motivations were to solve this "mystery" it didn't even seem like a mystery. Also I didn't like the first person distance, it was too close for such an opaque character. It made her seem flat. She had a family for some reason, not that she ever considered them. So much of the book reads like a character building sheet but then it's never implemented.
I didn't get that it was set in a dystopian future? Everything seemed reasonable, maybe near future with some drone action but really, not far off. Hated the main character who is probably a sociopath and just... why does she do things? No idea. No idea what her motivations were to solve this "mystery" it didn't even seem like a mystery. Also I didn't like the first person distance, it was too close for such an opaque character. It made her seem flat. She had a family for some reason, not that she ever considered them. So much of the book reads like a character building sheet but then it's never implemented.