A review by brokenspine
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

I'm definitely going to have to take a few days to think about what I just read. I took two days to read this book and not because I wasn't enjoying it. I wanted to finish, but I felt like I needed to sit with and process what I read before finishing the book.

Fever Dream is an indictment on wealthy landowners, the use of pesticides, and the consequences of agricultural pollution.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Body horror, Animal death, and Grief