A review by podanotherjessi
Leech by Hiron Ennes

challenging dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 This book opens with "The Institute" sending a doctor to replace the recently dead one at an isolated estate in (I think??) rural France. We quickly learn that the old doctor and the new doctor and in fact all of the Institute are hosts to a parasite that link them in a hive mind. And the former doctor died as the result of a new parasite, competition for the Institute? The investigation soon ends up intwined in the personal lives of the fascinating and often disturing denizins of the estate and nearby mining town, and things just get weirder from there. I don't know that I could definitivel describe what happened in this book, but it made me feel all types of ways. It was creepy and atmospheric and chilling. It's also maybe the grossest book I've ever read. And all of it was so, so fascinating. It was hard to look away from or put down, even though it was so unerving and uncomfortable. 
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