A review by glitchreads
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

dark mysterious fast-paced

3.75

Total spoiler - This was short, fast paced, and while mildly weird, pretty straight forward and easy to follow what’s going on. I enjoyed it as it picked up the pace even more about midway, I would just say there’s not much story, essentially mother & daughter vacation in little town where there’s not many healthy children, it’s unknown most of the story why but pretty obvious it’s something in the town. The main character meets another mother in town who tells the story of when her son almost died and was saved by having a woman in the greenhouse transfer his soul elsewhere to save the body. The story freaks out our main character who already has anxiety about keeping her daughter safe. Things are just off and they decide to leave vacation early but go to say goodbye to the woman they met. While sitting on the grass they both get wet and forget about it, then they end up poisoned, small town has no doctors and nurse at the clinic is practically useless. This story is the mother processing the fact that she’s died. She’s allowed to see that the woman took her daughter to the greenhouse to “save” her, and while her husband visits the woman house it’s obvious the the daughters soul was put into the woman’s sons body but the dad doesn’t notice. Fin.