A review by xtinabryan
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

1.0

(finally putting reviews for some of my recent reads!)

let me start by saying that I was SO excited to read this. I had been seeing it all over youtube and instagram, so when I saw it in my fav bookstore back home during a haul I just had to pick it up. that's why it pains me to rate it this low:( the way K-Ming writes is very poetic which isn't a bad thing...but it becomes a bad thing when it starts taking away from the main plot of the book. some chapters would have me so confused as to what was happening and I didn't have a firm grasp on what the plot was until maybe halfway through. what really bothered me, however, was some of the language used. there were a lot of references to things like shit, spit, assholes, etc. to the point where it was completely unnecessary. for example, there was one part where she was describing the scenery in a flashback and compared the sun to an asshole...WHY. WHY WAS THAT NEEDED? you couldn't go a chapter without reading something like that. things like this made it very hard to read/get through and on multiple occasions, I was so close to DNFing it. I was close to the end so I pushed on and honestly I'm just glad I got it out the way.