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A review by anteus7
Leech by Hiron Ennes
5.0
About halfway through the book, I would have dropped my rating by a star, but things change...
This is one of my favorite recent unreliable narrator narratives. I feel like going too much into that brings me into spoiler territory, though. So I'll talk of other things.
The setting is pretty cool--kind of steampunk, set in Fantasy France many, many years in the future after everything has collapsed because of human hubris. Most of the story takes place in a crumbling chateau which had some Gormenghast-like vibes to it (only because it reminded me a bit of that place--the story does not feel derivative of Peake's work), peopled by some nasty, broken people.
As the story moved along, the layers peeled away quite nicely and the reader gets to see more and more of the world and how it came to be the way it is. The ending was satisfying in that the story came to a decent conclusion, but there is all kinds of room for more.
Dark, grim, bleak, and creepy--Leech ticked a lot of boxes for me.
This is one of my favorite recent unreliable narrator narratives. I feel like going too much into that brings me into spoiler territory, though. So I'll talk of other things.
The setting is pretty cool--kind of steampunk, set in Fantasy France many, many years in the future after everything has collapsed because of human hubris. Most of the story takes place in a crumbling chateau which had some Gormenghast-like vibes to it (only because it reminded me a bit of that place--the story does not feel derivative of Peake's work), peopled by some nasty, broken people.
As the story moved along, the layers peeled away quite nicely and the reader gets to see more and more of the world and how it came to be the way it is. The ending was satisfying in that the story came to a decent conclusion, but there is all kinds of room for more.
Dark, grim, bleak, and creepy--Leech ticked a lot of boxes for me.