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A review by alisonburnis
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
A security analyst who gives her name as “Jane Smith” receives a note from her barista one day, signed Silvina. Grabbed by the mystery, Jane quickly finds out Silvina was a bioterrorist from Argentina, the daughter of a corrupt oligarch. And also someone who has some kind of strange mission for her.
This is creepy, unsettling, very tense speculative fiction. It’s set in a near-future US, and trails the crumbling of society in conjunction with what Silvina was trying to do and the chase Jane is sent on. I really loved this one! I devoured it in a day, racing through it on my bus commutes (which normally I wouldn’t be so fierce in that reading time). Excellent work.
This is creepy, unsettling, very tense speculative fiction. It’s set in a near-future US, and trails the crumbling of society in conjunction with what Silvina was trying to do and the chase Jane is sent on. I really loved this one! I devoured it in a day, racing through it on my bus commutes (which normally I wouldn’t be so fierce in that reading time). Excellent work.