A review by schnacks
Fen by Daisy Johnson

3.0

It took me awhile to finish this one. I had to put it down a few times, and I even had to skip a few pages. I found it disorienting, and quite brutal... yet very captivating and sensual as well, which is why I kept going back to it. I think by their nature, short stories are disorienting to begin with - the reader is generally dropped in and out of narrative by necessity. In the world of Fen, it often took me several pages for the fog to lift sufficiently until I felt I could see the story. I will definitely look for longer works by this author as she has a unique voice, and I would love to see her stretch her wings over a novel.