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A review by kennnedyexe
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
3.0
i really liked the way this story engaged with ancestry, memory, and generational trauma, especially the conversation around the burden of an extremely traumatic past; the difference between bearing it alone versus in a community.
i also liked the somewhat fractured and disparate narrative, jumping between time and characters and leaning on the reader to piece the stories together, although i could see how this method would be confusing.
i liked the love interest, she provided an interesting foil to the main character in their relationships to history. i just personally have a hard time with aquatic creature x human romances because of the shape of water lol, but that is not a value judgment.
i also liked the somewhat fractured and disparate narrative, jumping between time and characters and leaning on the reader to piece the stories together, although i could see how this method would be confusing.
i liked the love interest, she provided an interesting foil to the main character in their relationships to history. i just personally have a hard time with aquatic creature x human romances because of the shape of water lol, but that is not a value judgment.