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A review by echoreads
Subcutanean by Aaron A. Reed
5.0
If I read this stand alone with no concept that there were other copies different from this, it'd be a 4* at best (I did quite enjoy my version, especially the ending and the reveal, and as an easily spooked person, the earlier parts of the book had me scared to read at night). However, the overall experience reading this book in parallel with friends, reading a chapter a day and discussing each chapter in detail, was a novel experience I don't think I will have the pleasure of experiencing again. I also loved the theme of no same copies applied to the plot of the book.
Initially, I thought this book would be more like "choose your own adventure" where different copies got different stories. Instead, it's about the same story but how it's told is different (and details here and there differ). It may seem inconsequential but I like to see it as an analogy to reading in general, like reading a translation of a book, or to a greater extent, even the same copy because words can have different meaning to different people.
Initially, I thought this book would be more like "choose your own adventure" where different copies got different stories. Instead, it's about the same story but how it's told is different (and details here and there differ). It may seem inconsequential but I like to see it as an analogy to reading in general, like reading a translation of a book, or to a greater extent, even the same copy because words can have different meaning to different people.