Woah.. An anti-misogynistic book with a side of mummy and attachment issues?
To start with, this book began speaking about 'Disney' like endings and how not everything has a perfect ending which to me, already gave me the impression that this would make this novel beautiful. The imagery and indepth description of the butterflies was amazing and I loved that there was this massive juxtaposition of beauty and death through the extract.
I think that a really important bit of me enjoying a book is flawed characters. Our main character clearly was attached to her job and the normality/structure it gave her. She liked to be able to observe her community and get to know familiar faces (e.g Dot). This gave me simmilar vibes to the way that one of my favourite authors, Sally Rooney, writes books. My favourite moment was when our main character said 'he has zero qualifications in zoology, but I'm sure he'll do a much better job of answering your questions as he has a penis'. This absolutely battered the internalised misogyny in the face and I love to see that!!! I also really liked how the writer was able to portray their strained relationship with their mother as this isn't exactly stereotypical :)
I like the colour scheme on the cover and I am really excited to work out how the thrilling mythology is tied into this story!
I think that a really important bit of me enjoying a book is flawed characters. Our main character clearly was attached to her job and the normality/structure it gave her. She liked to be able to observe her community and get to know familiar faces (e.g Dot). This gave me simmilar vibes to the way that one of my favourite authors, Sally Rooney, writes books. My favourite moment was when our main character said 'he has zero qualifications in zoology, but I'm sure he'll do a much better job of answering your questions as he has a penis'. This absolutely battered the internalised misogyny in the face and I love to see that!!! I also really liked how the writer was able to portray their strained relationship with their mother as this isn't exactly stereotypical :)
I like the colour scheme on the cover and I am really excited to work out how the thrilling mythology is tied into this story!