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A review by scatteringashes
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
I have a complicated relationship with this book. I was sucked into it, and found the setting and plot really compelling. It is so my jam: a speculative fiction, society-falling-apart book that features motherhood and spirituality at it's center? But it just sort of. Ends. There are about a hundred questions left unanswered, but not necessarily in a way that I liked.
On one hand, that's life and all. Most of what takes us to that ending was satisfying and interesting, so I don't regret the time spent with the book. On the other hand, I think it was a fundamental mismatch of reader to story -- the speculative elements that I wanted to dig my hands into weren't necessarily important to the key components of the story.
On one hand, that's life and all. Most of what takes us to that ending was satisfying and interesting, so I don't regret the time spent with the book. On the other hand, I think it was a fundamental mismatch of reader to story -- the speculative elements that I wanted to dig my hands into weren't necessarily important to the key components of the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death