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A review by heelturn2
Severance by Ling Ma
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.75
my partner hated this book and couldn’t finish it but I think that’s because they need to quit their office job really badly lol.
cool spin on the zombie genre! I enjoyed the ambiguity around how exactly the illness spread & people became infected - & because of that, the constant tension you feel when the narrator starts reminiscing and describing her past and routines. really interesting exploration of a person who is totally uprooted and lost and unmoored from history/place/family. the end of the world already kind of happened for her. what does that mean for this kid?
I might be getting a little sick of the culty survivor group trope within zombie fiction, which this book uses, but it was effectively tense and the characters were interesting so I’ll allow it… genuinely felt nauseous with anxiety while reading the mall sections!!
I liked this a lot!
cool spin on the zombie genre! I enjoyed the ambiguity around how exactly the illness spread & people became infected - & because of that, the constant tension you feel when the narrator starts reminiscing and describing her past and routines. really interesting exploration of a person who is totally uprooted and lost and unmoored from history/place/family. the end of the world already kind of happened for her. what does that mean for this kid?
I might be getting a little sick of the culty survivor group trope within zombie fiction, which this book uses, but it was effectively tense and the characters were interesting so I’ll allow it… genuinely felt nauseous with anxiety while reading the mall sections!!
I liked this a lot!