Fever Dream in Reading with Style

Jun 10, 2024 Steph rated it really liked it

Shelves: poc-characters, poc-author, lost-in-translation, could-not-put-down, first-read-in-2024, place-south-america

it's not usual for me to devour a book in a single evening, but this delirious story demanded it of me. it's a fever dream itself, all disorienting urgency and surreal dread. and like waking up from a dream, when i finished it i wasn't sure exactly what had happened. the vibes, though!

the original title en español translates to "rescue distance," something that the narrator has on her mind at all times: the situationally shifting radius of space that she will allow between herself and her child, ...more

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Jul 24, 2019 Connie G rated it really liked it

Shelves: magical-realism, fiction, argentina, horror

"Fever Dream" is a short horror novel full of tension. Once you start it, you won't want to put it down. Amanda, bedridden and fighting a high fever, is in a dreamlike conversation with David, the young son of a friend. Amanda and her daughter had traveled from Buenos Aires to a rural farm town where they had rented a house for a vacation. David's mother told Amanda some creepy stories about the water in the stream poisoning her son and some animals, and a magical healer.

Amanda does not know wha ...more

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Jun 07, 2017 gam s (Haveyouread.bkk) rated it really liked it

Shelves: wtf, book-hangover, disturbing-as-hell, strange-weird-bizarre-odd

Um...ok what the hell just happened. This is such a cool book, reading it reallt feels like sleepwalking through a damn haze. Everything is so vague and confusing and unbearable and ... and beautiful. Not sure if that's the right word, though. Got me thinking a lot, like it sure has outdone itself. ...more

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Oct 13, 2019 Ann rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror-thiller, 2019, rws-fall-19

Wow.
I needed to let this one percolate through my subconscious. Read this in a sitting, got up and realized I was very thirsty and had a headache, and THAT was kind of freaky. Very unsettling book.

This is very much meant to read in one shot, so set aside some time. I think some of the effect would be lost if this was taken in little bits.

I spent a bit of time post-read trying to figure out what was real, trying to unravel the mystery of David. The story reminded me a little bit of so many famili ...more

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Jan 14, 2018 Megan added it · review of another edition

Shelves: in-translation, fiction, noteworthy-reads-2018

Intense, full of dread, and shadowy but poignant. Of course ecological horror and maternal horror run together and mix their metaphors. Of course. Brilliantly done.

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