panfriedcracker 's review for:

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

0.5

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I guess maybe I expected more from Vandermeer but honestly wow. A pointless shitty story about a shitty person. No likable characters and a purposelessly depressing and unlikable plot. It’s like he had I idea of a thought of what this book would be and just grasped around in the dark for a few hundred pages. If you want good sci-fi that focuses in on animal rights and trafficking, go read “The mountain in the sea” and “The tusks of extinction”. Not what ever this clumsy attempt at saying something about our relationship to nature is. The .5 I’ll give him is that he is a very eloquent writer and is incredible at setting an eerie undertone.