A review by saevers
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

5.0

Lovely use of language. Evocative and emotional. Strange and beautiful. While the story sometimes had minor flaws and things that didn’t entirely make sense if you stopped to think about them (why did what Borne did at the end have the result that it did for him?), those things felt beside the point. It was a meditation on the nature of being a person, on the connections that people make with one another and the ways that we make each other people, and on the end of the world and what can come after.