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A review by luftschlosseule
Bug by Giacomo Sartori
4.0
trigger warning
child neglect, grief, mental illness, self harm
While his mother is in coma, her deaf son compiles descriptions of what has been going on, partly told her through sign language he's sure she'll understand even with her eyes closed, and partly written down.
There is a lot of the last topic mentioned in the trigger warnings going on when our protagonist gets overwhelmed. He has ADHD, and might even fall on the autistic spectrum. I am not the right person to diagnose this.
We see everything through his lens, which means that if he's not aware of something, you have to piece together hints of what you're getting.
This family is weird. His mother is an activist because the concern Bayer is killing bees, and she's a beekeeper. His father officially sells Nutella but secretly is involved in an anti spy program. His grandfather is a hippie with opinions and finally, his brother is a child prodigy and hacker, acting under the name Robin Hood.
Bug is a slow paced and characterdriven book, and this is one example of where it works for me. Once I got in I had fun, and getting in only took time because I was sooo tired. Nothing I can fault the book for.
I am not sure if I would reach for other books by the same author, to be honest, but this was fun.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
While his mother is in coma, her deaf son compiles descriptions of what has been going on, partly told her through sign language he's sure she'll understand even with her eyes closed, and partly written down.
There is a lot of the last topic mentioned in the trigger warnings going on when our protagonist gets overwhelmed. He has ADHD, and might even fall on the autistic spectrum. I am not the right person to diagnose this.
We see everything through his lens, which means that if he's not aware of something, you have to piece together hints of what you're getting.
This family is weird. His mother is an activist because the concern Bayer is killing bees, and she's a beekeeper. His father officially sells Nutella but secretly is involved in an anti spy program. His grandfather is a hippie with opinions and finally, his brother is a child prodigy and hacker, acting under the name Robin Hood.
Bug is a slow paced and characterdriven book, and this is one example of where it works for me. Once I got in I had fun, and getting in only took time because I was sooo tired. Nothing I can fault the book for.
I am not sure if I would reach for other books by the same author, to be honest, but this was fun.
The arc was provided by the publisher.