A review by monasterymonochrome
Alligator by Lisa Moore

2.0

This is a book I've had on my shelf for so long that I've forgotten where I even picked up the recommendation in the first place. Unfortunately, I probably would not have finished reading it if I didn't feel attached to it by virtue of owning it for years. The first chapter was intriguing, evocative, and vaguely unsettling, but then I felt like I just spent most of the book waiting for something interesting to happen again. Things did get intense and weird in the last few chapters, but by then it was too little too late. Most of the book up until that point felt like set-up that moved at a snail's pace, and the characters weren't compelling enough to me to keep it from feeling like a slog.