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concertina's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
sapphire_mayo's review against another edition
Unfortunately I was bored almost immediately and the writing style was not engaging enough to help.
obsidianhummingbird's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
breesbookmark's review against another edition
3.0
I think I’m too stupid to get the metaphors here. I lost the plot by 75%. Otherwise the imagery was colorful and the writing style was captivating.
acanthae's review
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
__sam__'s review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
4.25
The was so good!!
It wasn't what I was expecting, I've been putting off reading this for so long and I've been refusing to reread the summary since it's so short and I totally forgot what it was about. But it's way weirder and way more up my alley than I was expecting. A group of people are forced to live on an ark after either their land or the world floods (they did not prepare well enough). Before the floods, there was a lot of tension between 2 groups in the country the people on the ark are from--regular people and then a group that has an undefined, probably magical connection with the sea. Before the flood (I think right before), the tension escalated into violence and a lot of the probably magical people died. The MC is a pregnant woman, Iraxi, who is part of the probably magical group, and her whole family had been killed in that escalation. The book is a lot of her dealing with the loss of her family, living with all these people who hate and fear her, and a pregnancy that she does not want. And then she has the baby and it's super freaky. Also the ending fucked pretty hard--very cool.
It reminds me a lot of Rivers Solomon's books, esp The Deep and The Unkindness of Ghosts. The writing was good and the book is weird and memorable. Very into it. I'll def be reading anything else Zin E. Rocklyn puts out!
It wasn't what I was expecting, I've been putting off reading this for so long and I've been refusing to reread the summary since it's so short and I totally forgot what it was about. But it's way weirder and way more up my alley than I was expecting. A group of people are forced to live on an ark after either their land or the world floods (they did not prepare well enough). Before the floods, there was a lot of tension between 2 groups in the country the people on the ark are from--regular people and then a group that has an undefined, probably magical connection with the sea. Before the flood (I think right before), the tension escalated into violence and a lot of the probably magical people died. The MC is a pregnant woman, Iraxi, who is part of the probably magical group, and her whole family had been killed in that escalation. The book is a lot of her dealing with the loss of her family, living with all these people who hate and fear her, and a pregnancy that she does not want. And then she has the baby and it's super freaky. Also the ending fucked pretty hard--very cool.
It reminds me a lot of Rivers Solomon's books, esp The Deep and The Unkindness of Ghosts. The writing was good and the book is weird and memorable. Very into it. I'll def be reading anything else Zin E. Rocklyn puts out!
zellreads's review against another edition
3.0
So disturbing. Beautiful descriptions of horrifying things, with a big dash of the surreal. I absolutely do not like body horror when it comes to pregnancy and birth, but this was really well done so I won't rate based on that. I would have loved a little more structure or background, but this felt like an absolute fever dream and the style of dropping in on Iraxi with no explanation really worked.
readingsofaslinky's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Minor: Child death