A review by hollowistheworld
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

This was... Wow. This is so different from what I usually read I didn't expect to find it more than mildly interesting but it was phenomenal. Beautifully, masterfully written. I feel like my brain's been rewired. I've been learning Spanish, and my new goal is to get good enough to read this book in its original language. I listened to it on audible and I am going to buy both the English and Spanish physical versions. I loved this. It was tragic, hopeful, dark, illuminating. Full of monsters and men and rats and ravens. I nearly cried. And it was so human, so feeling, in a way that most books of this type are not. There was no stiffness, no feeling that the author was an alien trying to get me to care about a concept too foreign to comprehend. It was no mere regurgitation of facts. Fernandez looks at history and wonders about the missing pieces, the human pieces. The people and moments who have been lost to us forever. She gives life to them - a life which may not be entirely truth, but which reminds us that history is made of people, not facts or symbols or numbers.