poegostick's reviews
171 reviews

Wow this book was so much more than I was ready for. If you told me that I would be fully invested in a lizardman and a human's relation, I would have told you that you were crazy. Yet, I was fully into this book. World building is something I really struggle with, but I didn't find those sections too heavy to get through. Overall, I think this was a great introdution to this author's work, and I will be reading more from them!

I'm def going to need something light hearted after this, though!

One of the more unique books I've read. It's hard to create an unreliable narrator and this book really succeeded. Telling too much about it will spoil it so honestly just read it. At just over 250 pages it will fly by.

The author has a strong writing style, lots of memorable lines. I'm curious about their other books and how this style translates to other stories.

It definitely had me checking behind my back and paranoid of the shadows for a bit...

This book was very touching. Andrew and Jameson were characters that were clearly loved by the author. I loved their slow burn, the discovery of feelings for each other, and the way they both struggled through emotions.

I feel like the book really suffered through its pacing. We fell in a formula of travel, meet people, learn bad truth, travel, meet people....rinse and repeat. Seeing it is the authors first work makes me hopeful thay it's something they can work on for the next publications.

I also think that the author failed at giving the boys two individual voices. Often times I couldn't remember who's point of view I was in. For example, the epilogue doesn't mention who is speaking, so I'm not really sure which one of them it was supposed to be.

I heard some people were upset that homophobia and racism were unnecessary or unrealistic in this case. I think those aspects were done tastefully and very believable. Survivalist mindset turns people against each other, and would allow discrimination to run rampart.

I think the survivalist stakes were quite low, however, given the supposed state of the world. I'm not sure at this point if the intention of the author was that anyone with this illness would have already died, but I would suspect much more suspicion of illness when meeting strangers.

I'm not sure thay any part of this book was extremely rememberable or stood out to me, but I enjoyed it, so four stars!