A review by louhayward
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

3.0

I really struggled with this one. On the one hand, it’s undeniably inventive and, at times, highly affecting - the horrific treatment of the island’s Indigenous people and perverse cruelty meted out to unlucky convict population being two examples. On the other hand, personally there were times when the wandering pointlessness of the narrative and painfully hideous, effluvia-filled descriptions became a bit too much for me. 3.5 / 5