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A review by monicaa_d
We Spread by Iain Reid
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
This was a quick read, and engaging. Since the narrator is losing time, the book doesn't dwell on the mundane, but instead skips to each crucial event in turn. I think it would take me another read to tease out all of the themes and meanings of the story's elements. I feel as though the book spoke to bodily autonomy and right to die, playing God, and the contrast between feeling pressure to complete things that don't need to be completed and pressure to extend infinitely things that should come to an end.
The characterization was crucial to the story, and was done very well. Being in the shoes of a woman reflecting on her life while battling the confusion that clouds her own mind and trying to parse out what's real and what's a lie was just as disorienting as it was meant to be.
The characterization was crucial to the story, and was done very well. Being in the shoes of a woman reflecting on her life while battling the confusion that clouds her own mind and trying to parse out what's real and what's a lie was just as disorienting as it was meant to be.