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At the End of Every Day
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3.5 stars
I have mixed feelings about this one. I liked it but I didn’t love it. At the End of Every Day is set in a Southern Californian theme park that has a strong resemblance to Disneyland. With this book being compared to Jeff VanderMeer, I was fully expecting some weird shit to go down which I definitely got. The things that happened in this book were weird and murky but I did get solid answers at the end.
Our main character, Delphi, has some deep trauma and that trauma plays a large role in the events of the story. I’m not entirely sure if she and her partner, Brendan, worked for me as characters. They sometimes didn’t feel real to me, like they were as fictional as the characters in the theme park. This book also has a strange logic to it and I think that’s what I struggled with a bit. Things just seemed nonsensical or not grounded in reality. It has this hazy quality throughout. Overall though, it is a unique story that encompasses several different elements such as religion, capitalism, technology and the climate. This is one you definitely want to go into blind.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I liked it but I didn’t love it. At the End of Every Day is set in a Southern Californian theme park that has a strong resemblance to Disneyland. With this book being compared to Jeff VanderMeer, I was fully expecting some weird shit to go down which I definitely got. The things that happened in this book were weird and murky but I did get solid answers at the end.
Our main character, Delphi, has some deep trauma and that trauma plays a large role in the events of the story. I’m not entirely sure if she and her partner, Brendan, worked for me as characters. They sometimes didn’t feel real to me, like they were as fictional as the characters in the theme park. This book also has a strange logic to it and I think that’s what I struggled with a bit. Things just seemed nonsensical or not grounded in reality. It has this hazy quality throughout. Overall though, it is a unique story that encompasses several different elements such as religion, capitalism, technology and the climate. This is one you definitely want to go into blind.
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