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A review by haerin
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
4.0
i struggled between choosing 3.5 or 4 stars for the rating (i don't like using the quartered points, idk why), but i ultimately ended up rounding up. the prose is beautiful! so poetic and makes you breathless with its seemingly endless thought spirals - i'm not even joking when i say a single paragraph may go on for pages at a time.
i also don't know how this happened, but the last few books i've read all had the stylistic choice of forgoing the quotation marks in dialogue... i personally don't mind this, but i know it's a Hot Topic™️, which is really the only reason i mention it. i will say it sometimes makes it difficult to tell the difference between actual spoken word and tarare's thoughts, but mayhaps... perhaps... that is the point lol.
while the book held my attention throughout its entirety, i have to admit it didn't really enrapture me until at least halfway through. i'm still lowkey struggling with the themes of this book, but i want to say it touches upon the corruption by Man™️.
and for anyone worried about the level of body horror and etc, the prose is written just enough so that it keeps you from being disgusted and nauseated (at least in my case).
i also don't know how this happened, but the last few books i've read all had the stylistic choice of forgoing the quotation marks in dialogue... i personally don't mind this, but i know it's a Hot Topic™️, which is really the only reason i mention it. i will say it sometimes makes it difficult to tell the difference between actual spoken word and tarare's thoughts, but mayhaps... perhaps... that is the point lol.
while the book held my attention throughout its entirety, i have to admit it didn't really enrapture me until at least halfway through. i'm still lowkey struggling with the themes of this book, but i want to say it touches upon the corruption by Man™️.
and for anyone worried about the level of body horror and etc, the prose is written just enough so that it keeps you from being disgusted and nauseated (at least in my case).