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A review by agameofbooks
The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
3.0
ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The first few pages of The Art of Taxidermy confused me as I didn’t know it was a verse novel. What I thought was just an introductory poem, was really the start of the actual novel. There were so few words that I found it difficult to create an image for myself. I’m a very visual person when reading, and I need to be able to make the story into a sort of personal movie in my head to be able to enjoy it. That is very difficult to do with this type of novel, though the poetry was beautifully written.
I wish this had been an actual novel, because the story itself was very captivating as well as sad. It’s about Lottie, a young girl who is descendant from Germans who fled the war, but who now lives in Australia and is obsessed with death. When you continue reading, you realise that she has had to experience so much death in her young life already that it is bound to have a certain influence on her. She turns to taxidermy as a way to prove to herself that death is not the end. Though her aunt finds this repulsive, her father sees the beauty in it, and encourages her to study the science.
Though the poems were quite short, they gave away plenty of information and in the end they made up one complete story. There were many little details tucked away in the lines that created beautiful images. I just wish there was more to read.
The first few pages of The Art of Taxidermy confused me as I didn’t know it was a verse novel. What I thought was just an introductory poem, was really the start of the actual novel. There were so few words that I found it difficult to create an image for myself. I’m a very visual person when reading, and I need to be able to make the story into a sort of personal movie in my head to be able to enjoy it. That is very difficult to do with this type of novel, though the poetry was beautifully written.
I wish this had been an actual novel, because the story itself was very captivating as well as sad. It’s about Lottie, a young girl who is descendant from Germans who fled the war, but who now lives in Australia and is obsessed with death. When you continue reading, you realise that she has had to experience so much death in her young life already that it is bound to have a certain influence on her. She turns to taxidermy as a way to prove to herself that death is not the end. Though her aunt finds this repulsive, her father sees the beauty in it, and encourages her to study the science.
Though the poems were quite short, they gave away plenty of information and in the end they made up one complete story. There were many little details tucked away in the lines that created beautiful images. I just wish there was more to read.