literaryjunarin's reviews
469 reviews

being scared of your own ghost

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Following the endless monologues of a man with a God complex before and after committing a crime is a punishment. Whew, that book title is apt.

Why is everyone so emotional? They're all suddenly bursting into tears, kissing hands or feet, and shouting prayers. I enjoyed the emotionally charged scenes, though, especially on the last 100 pages. 

Didnt know conservatorship is a thing! Damn her family!

creatively told but felt muddled. it took me a while to get used to the switching povs and narration style.

Did she successfully escaped tho

Too shorttttt

Quite slow at first but the intense ending was worth it for all that buildup.

From a man to a tree(?) to a transcendent being. I didnt get it tbh but fantastic storytelling

I loved the idea of this book but since the summary made it sound apocalyptic, I expected a big scale view of the very "fishy" event. I mean, there was a storm and fish got washed up in the sea but then the fish didn't leave and started walking in land, breathing just fine. The bad thing is they also carry neurotoxins which infects people with flu-like disease. With that kind of plot, I looked forward on how this will impact the world as a whole. What would happen to trading, will there be impact on ships, what would they do with fishermen who lost their living, will the fish evolve, how about a whale walking, what will we do about that? Instead, the book focused on 3 sets of characters and on how they reacted to the fish invading the land. Thats it.

It was clever but the storytelling was so bleak