IBR - Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Members Starting the BR: Trisha & Jammin Jenny / Chapter Champs
Challenge: Book Quest Adventures
Book: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer


Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

[Trisha]

it looks like this one is broken into 3 stories or parts?

I've started Dead Town and I'm doing this as an audio and really liking it so far (through ch 2)

(view spoiler)[ I like how we're getting the history, the beginning Biologists!! I love the lore and I liked the narrator, Old jim (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Part 1 : Dead Town

(view spoiler)[ I love how still, no one had names except Old Jim.
They are the name of what they do - it just fits!

and OMG the description of the bunnies and their mindless eating - eating the crabs and the burned bunnies and just OMG. . .

it's so creepy to think of these white bunnies and how unnerving that would be being in that area

and the balloons in the generator. This one had a very creepy, unnerving vibe. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Part 2 : The False Daughter

wow (view spoiler)[ how messed up, they sent someone who looked like his daughter

I did like how they worked on their trust and communication and they worked together

but wow, the mentions of the lighthouse and the group
and these massive creatures that are keeping them in half stasis/half alive - it's freaky

and the layers of betrayal. how can he trust anyone? (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

Part 3 (and done)

(view spoiler)[ this was probably my least favorite part of the story
I didn't care for the narrator
but he was really losing it
ugh the eating people (ew)

but wow, the learn what happened to old Jim, the piano and then the daughter - was she completely made up after he forgot the accident?

and then the assigned daughter, under a new name, coming back for this guy! It was an interesting twist, the message jim had left, and something I didn't see coming.

(hide spoiler)]

[Jammin Jenny]

Part 1 Dead Town

3/5
(view spoiler)[

Whoa! Carnivorous cannibalistic bunnies!! That was a crazy scene. I also liked how no-one had names (just referred to as various job titles) except for Old Jim. He'll probably carry on into story #2 (hide spoiler)]

[Jammin Jenny]

Part 2: The False Daughter

I like the premise of this - reminds me of some old Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode...

Rating: 4/5

(view spoiler)[
I like how all the details of his daughter were right, but not right. Hard to see how a computer can be as real or more real (hide spoiler)]

[Jammin Jenny]

Trisha wrote: "Part 2 : The False Daughter

I agree - so much lying and betrayal
(view spoiler)[I did like the mention of the lighthouse we saw in book 1 of this series (hide spoiler)]

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

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