reading crustacean reviewed Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
good writing, dark mood, weird plot arc
4 stars
It's a good read but i put it away for some months because it is so gritty and dark and that's not how i like my escapism sometimes. also, it felt like the plot didn't really get going for a long stretch in the middle and then everything rushed to an end. anyway, it has a lot of truly beautiful, poetic sentences which sometimes almost made me cry. i loved the characters, and the writing of queerness and queer sex. i read "the deep" by the author before and liked it a lot, so maybe my expectations were a bit too high for this one.
It's a good read but i put it away for some months because it is so gritty and dark and that's not how i like my escapism sometimes. also, it felt like the plot didn't really get going for a long stretch in the middle and then everything rushed to an end. anyway, it has a lot of truly beautiful, poetic sentences which sometimes almost made me cry. i loved the characters, and the writing of queerness and queer sex. i read "the deep" by the author before and liked it a lot, so maybe my expectations were a bit too high for this one.