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wild_dog 's review for:
Blackfish City
by Sam J. Miller
It took me a while to really get with this book, only because I started out not really liking any of the characters. The author does a masterful job of introducing a lot of POV characters who are not easy to sympathize with and making you care about and get invested in them over the course of the story, slowly revealing their motivations and what made them into who they are.
Also wow was this a refreshing take on an apocalyptic setting. I come from a refugee diaspora, and I found this a really great representation of the complicated and hypocritical mixture of generational trauma, clinging to the past, and longing for the new.
Four stars mainly because I found the ending a bit unsatisfying (and traumatic). It was a little bit too open-ended, though I guess that ambiguity goes with the tone...
Also wow was this a refreshing take on an apocalyptic setting. I come from a refugee diaspora, and I found this a really great representation of the complicated and hypocritical mixture of generational trauma, clinging to the past, and longing for the new.
Four stars mainly because I found the ending a bit unsatisfying (and traumatic). It was a little bit too open-ended, though I guess that ambiguity goes with the tone...