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I have many thoughts and feelings - some very positive, some quite negative

After “our wives-“ I found out her first book was a collection of short stories so obviously I had to read it

Overall the stories were pretty good or better but I feel she pulls a few key punches that she really lets fly in her novel— there are themes she’ll revisit in “our wives” that I think are just more fleshed out there.

It’s good!!

Sci-fi horror elements used as metaphor for grief and loss

A large amount of this is up for interpretation and depending on which perspective you read from or what you decide to be “true” can have many “meanings”

Incredibly claustrophobic and anxiety inducing settings where the passage of time is inconsistent and unreliable.

Oceanic themes and motifs were excellent

Lots of big feelings about this one

Lots of vandermeer genius that would be seen again and expanded upon in the Area X trilogy. Thoroughly enjoyed this one

This is one I’m ashamed I haven’t read or watched yet

I have soooooo many complaints - the main one being the characters and dialogue are indescribably stiff. Embarrassingly. This book gets 4 stars???? Overwhelmingly??? Wow

The plot sucks and is basically just one giant trope fest - it’s so bad

Poorly written “science” fiction (world building is atrocious)
Poorly written fiction.

This sucks lol