This book is beautiful, artistic, wildly imaginative, and unlike anything, I've ever read. And...I hated it. The 7 derelictions in this book are moments in time directly after some catastrophe. There are no characters and no plot to be found, instead, there is only the world and the terror that exists in it. There's no conflict or action, reading these selections is very much akin to stumbling upon a crime scene. The reader doesn't know what happened and is never told because there's no one to tell. The only thing present is the reader and the world that Nevill created. I compared it in a chat to watching some horrific landscape screensaver flash on a computer screen. ⁣
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I have to give this a negative review because it didn't work for me. I felt no connection to the scenes unfolding before me. It may make me unsophisticated or basic but I need conflict, story, plot, and characters to develop a connection to what I'm reading. Otherwise, it is just watching the world pass by, beautiful and horrific but ultimately just window dressing. I wanted to connect to it but I found nothing to sink my teeth into.⁣
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