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A review by chelseamartinez
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
3.0
I guess I am going to classify this as a "beach read" --- it would have been an awesome companion on an actual beach trip (even a one- or two-day one), both because it mostly takes place at the beach and because it captures a short snippet of time. I didn't add up the total days the trip in this book takes... it is more than two days but the nights pile up without much consequence (and the days even less).
I was intrigued by the initial 1980s setting and new wave musical references; this context makes a "beach trip in Mexico" seem more like an escape (but they disappear for the most part after the first chapters). I wasn't ultimately that convinced I was seeing things from the mind of a young person, but... I was a much less wordly young person at that age.
I was intrigued by the initial 1980s setting and new wave musical references; this context makes a "beach trip in Mexico" seem more like an escape (but they disappear for the most part after the first chapters). I wasn't ultimately that convinced I was seeing things from the mind of a young person, but... I was a much less wordly young person at that age.