kchamp 's review for:

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

4.25

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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This book is…something else. I don’t even know how to rate it in a way that captures my experience. Totally bizarre, definitely outside my usual comfort zone. The first half felt very slow, alternatingly monotonous and horrifying. The second half surprised me when at some point I knew I would want to pick up the next book in the series.

I think I knew in the back of my head that this book had something to do with language/word magic, but I did not expect it to unfold the way it does. So abstract and strange in a way that I typically wouldn’t like, and yet, I want to find out where it goes.