by R Tim Morris

A Science Fiction, 2009 by Empire Stamp, 320 Pages

What I Didn’t Like:

I’m not sure how I managed to pick up a book that has content I would normally stay far away from … but we’ll call it a content warning: this book does contain some references to teacher/student relationships and affairs.
Dry prose. Likely because of the massive amounts of bird knowledge, which is a hyper-fixation for the main character but not for this particular reader, this text came off as very dry. I had trouble staying focused on it.
The book takes a weird sort of turn that is practically impossible to explain.

What I Did Like:

The story takes sort of a paranormal turn around the 75% mark and really zooms after that.
The story has a lot of layers. It’s the kind of story you could reread and uncover new details you’d missed the first time.
The inclusion of past characters and the strange twists really make you question the reliability of this narrator. I mean, honestly, how can we be at all sure this entire book wasn’t a fever dream? Fun in a question everything kind of way.

Readers who want immersive text they can fall into.
Definitely for the reader who says “what did I just read” and means it in a good way.

Practically impossible to categorize, this one will fall into the hands of the right reader and they’ll adore it. But, for me, the slow start was problematic.