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Out There by Kate Folk

2 reviews

owenwilsonbaby's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

‘She rolled over to the tree stump and opened her laptop, hoping to find some message from Roger, a love note scrawled in a Word document. But there was nothing. Later, when she was back in cell service, Meg would check her phone and find a photo Roger had sent the night before — at 8:35 P.M., when she had been in the bathroom at the restaurant—of a cocker spaniel wearing a straw panama hat. The message had gone through on Roger's end, meaning that wherever he and his phone had vanished to, there was cell service. She replied with a heart emoji, hoping he would respond, but hours and days passed, and he never did. She would keep texting Roger for years, even after she had begun dating the man she would marry and moved to a suburb of Seattle, where they started a family. She wanted to keep him updated, hoping that wherever he was, whatever blot hive mind he'd been absorbed into, some ember of his consciousness could still see her messages, even if he could never respond.’

I loved this! Not all of the stories compelled me to the same degree but Folk does have a consistently fluid and charismatic writing style. My favourite stories were probably Out There, A Scale Model of Gull Point and Big Sur. Big Sur was my absolute favourite. After a collection of relatively cynical stories, playing the ‘blot’ concept / world-building completely straight was very emotional and I was tearing up at the end. Roger, my beloved bisexual robot.

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dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Read this if you like:
🖤🪞Black Mirror
🌀🪄 A.S. King
🔪💉Light Horror

Out there - 5 ⭐️
The last woman on earth -5⭐️
Heart seek brain -4⭐️
The void wife -3⭐️
Shelter - 4⭐️
The head in the floor - 2⭐️
Tahoe - 2⭐️
The bone ware - 5⭐️
Doe eyes - 2⭐️
The houses beating heart - 2 ⭐️
A scale model of gull point - 4⭐️
Dating a somnambulist -2 ⭐️
Moist house - 4 ⭐️
The turkey rumble - 3⭐️
Big Sur - 5⭐️

Going off average of the stories this is a 4⭐️ for me but the 5s really stood out and the writing was brilliant

I really wanted Roger and Meg from the story Big Sur to the the miss match couple from Out There, I wanted a happy ending for them instead of the happy ending for him. Im also curious when in Megs timeline the first story was because they had a second wave of blots that Meg never seemed to mention

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