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crookedtreehouse's review
2.0
If you are awed by metaphor and vague social commentary above plot or logic, this is THE book for you. It feels mysterious without ever offering any meaning. Its characters don't follow any logic, have any growth, or actually do anything for the entirety of the book except be generally maudlin at each other.
A character is supposedly bullied at a school we never see, there is reference to there being no neighbors around at all, every characters' back story is a mysterious unexplained trauma, a character who doesn't want to fuck his cousinsister anymore has an out of nowhere sex scene with the male drifter who challenges the mysterious status quo of his life, there is a forest and also a a cornfield that both represent "The Outside World" where everything the protagonist loves goes to ... die ? abandon him ? change ?
I kept hoping this story was going to somewhere other than Spookily Vague ending suggesting the death of innocence, but that's one of the more obvious interpretations of its deliberately obtuse metaphorical ending.
Also, if you enjoy books which are praised as "haunting" and "ephemeral" when the reviewers clearly mean "vague" and "aloof", this might be a five star book for you.
The watercolors and inks are lovely.
A character is supposedly bullied at a school we never see, there is reference to there being no neighbors around at all, every characters' back story is a mysterious unexplained trauma, a character who doesn't want to fuck his cousinsister anymore has an out of nowhere sex scene with the male drifter who challenges the mysterious status quo of his life, there is a forest and also a a cornfield that both represent "The Outside World" where everything the protagonist loves goes to ... die ? abandon him ? change ?
I kept hoping this story was going to somewhere other than Spookily Vague ending suggesting the death of innocence, but that's one of the more obvious interpretations of its deliberately obtuse metaphorical ending.
Also, if you enjoy books which are praised as "haunting" and "ephemeral" when the reviewers clearly mean "vague" and "aloof", this might be a five star book for you.
The watercolors and inks are lovely.
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