TBR & Tangents by Rachel

This felt like a fever dream from start to finish, and I was second guessing everything I read, and re-read. There was a plot in the first few chapters, but it quickly was overshadowed by the bizarre writing style and strange tangents.

It starts with a pretty clear plot and an easily identifiable direction that it’s going. I excited the first dew chapters in and was expecting wildlife horror, and was thrilled about the idea of a town being under lock-down. There is the town and its lockdown, and was wildlife that did not act normal (but what was with the excess talk about birds? I love birds myself- I even have a bird tattoo but I didn’t understand it. Maybe it is a high over-arching theme that I am not seeing) but that is about the only concise thing I can speak about. After the first 5 pages it is a total loss. The rest is a muddled mess of human nature turned violet, and a collective mind overtaking humans. But it’s not just a collective mind, except we don’t ever get to know the true definition. This book feels like someone wanted to write all the horror plots into one book and call it a day.

I will be frank, the writing was so hard to get through. It felt clunky and entirely inorganic and maddeningly confusing. The overall style of the book was also strange. Though that is very possible it could just be a tech thing with my Kindle so I wouldn’t give it too much though. Dialogue between characters was actually fantastic and I appreciated one speck of good. The cast is decently sized and I was sort of expecting it. They all have their own individual stories and interactions. Normally this would be great but this all adds another layer of plot to separate and ended up feeling like a chore.

There was no resolution to book which both shocked and frustrated me. One of the main reasons why I decided to push to finish the book was so I could hopefully gain some clear understanding as to what was happening. I didn’t, and it only left me with more questions and a desire to take back the time I took to read it. Needless to say I half wish I DNF’d it.