Reviews

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

apenum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

grundlbundl's review against another edition

1.0

I want to give it 3 stars for how mediocre this was but it actually annoyed me way too much, so one star for you. This type of speculative fiction is one of my least favourite genres and I hereby vow to avoid it in the future.

alexiasp's review against another edition

dark informative reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

It takes a long time to get into each story, and not every vignette impacted me, but those that did made me bawl my eyes. The City of Laugheter especially made me cry on the street. That one and a few others are five⭐.

leggsly's review against another edition

I like the concept and it was working for me as an audiobook generally. I’m just not excited to keep listening so I’m moving on

kerush's review against another edition

emotional

4.0

bibi003's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

kaebirdie's review against another edition

4.0

I don't even know how to review this one; it's just got so much. Really, an amazing read.

sunsetcreature's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

morganmay's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Ehh? First of all, it’s a huge bummer. I think I’m just the wrong audience maybe? I did not love reading about a life altering pandemic so soon after Covid. AND there’s soooo many stressful reminders about things like climate change and late stage capitalism in every chapter. ALSO I just generally don’t love when a book does have classic beginning/middle/end structure. This is written like a bunch of diary entries from like 30 people who all live in the same universe, but who (mostly) don’t know each other. Idk. I was bored the last half. It seems like what each character wanted to say was “Man. Living here in the future sucks and is so stressful. I wish the people I loved hadn’t died!!” The euthanization theme park was interesting! I would’ve enjoyed a whole book about just the folks from that chapter! 

raspberrythriller's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0