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A review by __sam__
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
4.25
The was so good!!
It wasn't what I was expecting, I've been putting off reading this for so long and I've been refusing to reread the summary since it's so short and I totally forgot what it was about. But it's way weirder and way more up my alley than I was expecting. A group of people are forced to live on an ark after either their land or the world floods (they did not prepare well enough). Before the floods, there was a lot of tension between 2 groups in the country the people on the ark are from--regular people and then a group that has an undefined, probably magical connection with the sea. Before the flood (I think right before), the tension escalated into violence and a lot of the probably magical people died. The MC is a pregnant woman, Iraxi, who is part of the probably magical group, and her whole family had been killed in that escalation. The book is a lot of her dealing with the loss of her family, living with all these people who hate and fear her, and a pregnancy that she does not want. And then she has the baby and it's super freaky. Also the ending fucked pretty hard--very cool.
It reminds me a lot of Rivers Solomon's books, esp The Deep and The Unkindness of Ghosts. The writing was good and the book is weird and memorable. Very into it. I'll def be reading anything else Zin E. Rocklyn puts out!
It wasn't what I was expecting, I've been putting off reading this for so long and I've been refusing to reread the summary since it's so short and I totally forgot what it was about. But it's way weirder and way more up my alley than I was expecting. A group of people are forced to live on an ark after either their land or the world floods (they did not prepare well enough). Before the floods, there was a lot of tension between 2 groups in the country the people on the ark are from--regular people and then a group that has an undefined, probably magical connection with the sea. Before the flood (I think right before), the tension escalated into violence and a lot of the probably magical people died. The MC is a pregnant woman, Iraxi, who is part of the probably magical group, and her whole family had been killed in that escalation. The book is a lot of her dealing with the loss of her family, living with all these people who hate and fear her, and a pregnancy that she does not want. And then she has the baby and it's super freaky. Also the ending fucked pretty hard--very cool.
It reminds me a lot of Rivers Solomon's books, esp The Deep and The Unkindness of Ghosts. The writing was good and the book is weird and memorable. Very into it. I'll def be reading anything else Zin E. Rocklyn puts out!