A review by claire_fuller_writer
Fen by Daisy Johnson

3.0

I really liked the dark themes of this book: a girl who didn't eat and became an eel; three women who eat men and find their language repeats on them; a brother who becomes a fox. And all stories started out well for me (although sometimes it felt that the author was trying too hard with the language), but my biggest problem was that none of the stories were pushed as far as they could go. They all seemed to stop short of something even darker. The Scattering: a story in three parts was my favourite and I think that's because it was the longest, where Johnson really played with the characters and relationships, but even with this one, it felt as if it finished too early. If Johnson writes something longer I'd be interested to read it.