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Little Bird
by Tiffany Meuret
Confession: I am 100% embarrassingly late in reading this and writing this review. Before the book was published I received an electronic arc of this from Netgalley. I accidentally let it expire. I then purchased the book when it came out so I could still review it. It took me this long to get around to it. But I have finally read it and it was 100% one of the best books I’ve read so far this short year.
This book is a hilarious, sad, beautiful, and well written exploration of grief, sadness, loss, self destruction, and how someone can self destruct and practically not notice. The protagonist Josie is still grieving the death of her father and her divorce and has isolated herself with her stay at home job and is self medicating with alcohol. The arrival of a jungle of vines and a talking skeleton in her backyard upend her world and her life.
I love Josie. The character arc she goes through over the course of the book is amazing. She is a profoundly broken person and watching her come to terms with that was fascinating. Skelly is a great character and foil for her. Her wit and sarcasm were great to read but she also managed to be supporting at the same time. The ending is heart wrenching imo.
I absolutely loved this book. There is a lot of discussion of heavy topics (alcoholism, divorce, cancer, death, anxiety, depression) but I still highly recommend this for fantasy fans. (I see this tagged as horror but I personally don’t see it as that.)
This book is a hilarious, sad, beautiful, and well written exploration of grief, sadness, loss, self destruction, and how someone can self destruct and practically not notice. The protagonist Josie is still grieving the death of her father and her divorce and has isolated herself with her stay at home job and is self medicating with alcohol. The arrival of a jungle of vines and a talking skeleton in her backyard upend her world and her life.
I love Josie. The character arc she goes through over the course of the book is amazing. She is a profoundly broken person and watching her come to terms with that was fascinating. Skelly is a great character and foil for her. Her wit and sarcasm were great to read but she also managed to be supporting at the same time. The ending is heart wrenching imo.
I absolutely loved this book. There is a lot of discussion of heavy topics (alcoholism, divorce, cancer, death, anxiety, depression) but I still highly recommend this for fantasy fans. (I see this tagged as horror but I personally don’t see it as that.)