Zana’s Reviews > Year of the Mer > Status Update

Wondering if I should DNF. It's such a slog to get through compared to my other current reads. I'm cool with unlikeable MCs but goddamn she's mean AND boring? Lmao girl pick a struggle

“...And now Yemi was alone. She might never have made it inside. It would have been nothing for them to launch her over the garden cliffs.”

Sure why not. Literally everyone hates her

“Without ceremony, she stretched his tongue past his lips and sliced clean through it, met by his screams, which faded quickly as he passed out.”

👁️👅👁️

“She could only imagine the throngs of birds being startled to death or fleeing to take equally startled shits over the fields beyond the city.”

Wtf is this sentence 🥴

I can't believe I'm only this far into the book. This is dragging so much 🥲

“He was a squat man with thinning white hair and a complexion somewhere between tomato and eggplant, depending on his frequently elevated blood pressure.”

😐

“...She possessed a certain juiciness, in the way of berries, but the threat of her being poisonous just barely outweighed the intrigue of her taste.”

Strange way to describe a character but okay 🫐

“...The cultivation of Men was necessary to prolong the feast. And so Men were bred and nourished to worship and be devoured.”

Brother ew

“The body was only a body in the sense that there was a belly button to keep it from being some other category of meat. There was a torso, bare and pale and waterlogged with shredded flesh at its ribs like so much fringe. What was left of the viscera that had once filled it was now a short trail just shy of the tide line....”

Ew