A review by hp_reading
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

3.0

I like books that are clever and have an interesting structure, but I don't like to feel confused when I finish. And confused in such a way that I don't even know where to start if I wanted to figure it out. This book was interestingly written and very vivid, but like the situation the characters are in in the book, everything feels disjointed and not enough information - just enough to keep you interested to finish. This is one of those books where I would like to read it in a class so that I had people I could progressively unpack it with because I think I've missed a lot of things. Getting to the end, I think I would like to go back and read it knowing what I know now, but unfortunately I don't feel invested in the characters enough to do so.
Overall very interesting, but just not the book for me.