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A review by betwixt_the_pages
The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
5.0
Rating: 5/5 Penguins
Quick Reasons: why do you have to hurt me so, books?!; painfully exquisite ending to a beautiful duology; I think Tade Thompson just might be a new favorite author for me; this was wrapped up so, so gorgeously; once again, I have not the words
There's just something about a gorgeously crafted duology that gets me all SWOONY, Penguins! And this duology? Was fanTASTic from start to finish. I can't even.
This character...this story....will crawl beneath your fingernails, claw beneath your skin, and seek shelter in your veins. This will stick with you. This will HAUNT you, until the very end, and for a while after. If I were to scoop a piece of my heart out of my chest this second, MONTHS after having finished this duology....it would be riddled by this journey. There's an altering, a changing, that happens while reading, that I would never wish to go back on.
Again, the prose was poetic and gorgeous. There is a ghostly, phantasmic quality to the pages that leaves readers feeling almost dreamlike--as if they're just on the verge of awakening, and are still quite foggy with sleep, and don't quite yet know what is real. This is coupled with the horror of the story, the riddle of the ending. Tade Thompson knows how to weave a story in all the BEST ways--and he does so prominently with this duology.
If you're looking for a paranormal, unique, DEEP read....check out this series. Dive into these pages, dive into this character, and let her take you over. Because she will. By the end, you'll wonder if mayhaps you're just another molly, seeking out the answer to your life. As for me...this will be the series that I compare all the next reads to. I cannot WAIT to hear what you all think of Molly Southbourne, and the mollys.
Quick Reasons: why do you have to hurt me so, books?!; painfully exquisite ending to a beautiful duology; I think Tade Thompson just might be a new favorite author for me; this was wrapped up so, so gorgeously; once again, I have not the words
There's just something about a gorgeously crafted duology that gets me all SWOONY, Penguins! And this duology? Was fanTASTic from start to finish. I can't even.
This character...this story....will crawl beneath your fingernails, claw beneath your skin, and seek shelter in your veins. This will stick with you. This will HAUNT you, until the very end, and for a while after. If I were to scoop a piece of my heart out of my chest this second, MONTHS after having finished this duology....it would be riddled by this journey. There's an altering, a changing, that happens while reading, that I would never wish to go back on.
I suppose I killed enough mollys to warrant a haunting, but I don’t believe in ghosts, and I hate problems that I cannot punch into submission.
Again, the prose was poetic and gorgeous. There is a ghostly, phantasmic quality to the pages that leaves readers feeling almost dreamlike--as if they're just on the verge of awakening, and are still quite foggy with sleep, and don't quite yet know what is real. This is coupled with the horror of the story, the riddle of the ending. Tade Thompson knows how to weave a story in all the BEST ways--and he does so prominently with this duology.
If you're looking for a paranormal, unique, DEEP read....check out this series. Dive into these pages, dive into this character, and let her take you over. Because she will. By the end, you'll wonder if mayhaps you're just another molly, seeking out the answer to your life. As for me...this will be the series that I compare all the next reads to. I cannot WAIT to hear what you all think of Molly Southbourne, and the mollys.