A review by stiricide
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen

p. 70 and I'm about to DNF. We're still meeting characters, which means that we're not even to the meat of the novel yet, and we're nearly 1/4 through it. Something about the whole thing seems off - a little racist, even though it's about humanoid animals? Every time the otters (or literally anyone else) describes the Fants as "disgusting" (and they do, often), it seems metatextual, but not intentionally. We're also 70 pages in and having taxonomy problems - the Fants have been broken down, several times, in to Lox, Elephs, and Fants, but we've yet to get an explanation of why, or what demarcates these different families/groups.

I need to quit before I end up hate-reading it to the end.