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The Drowning Girl

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Start date: May 1, 2020

Finish date: May 31, 2020

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Aug 12, 2018 Lena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pure-crazy, stoker-award, audio, dark-fantasy

“We weave necessary fictions, and sometimes they save us. Our minds, our bodies.”
- Imp
“You know now that you’ll never be sure what happened?”
- Dr. Ogilvy

Wow. So there are unreliable narrators and then there are schizophrenics. Had I never read PKD I would have been unprepared.

There are chapters where it is a Tai Chi flow of pure crazy; tangent overlapping tangent. I had never really understood the phrase ‘Keep it together.’

Kiernan cleverly draws you into the character’s predicament by ove ...more

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May 16, 2020 Tyler Gray added it

Shelves: lgbtqia, unhaul, horror, dnf

28 pages in, one chapter. I can't do it. The rambling, the unreliable narrator, and looking at reviews...the not knowing. It's driving me up a wall already. I struggled through that first chapter, and that's not something I could say before. It seems it's not my kinda book. I'm sorry. ...more

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May 25, 2020 SnazzyMoose (Lauren) rated it it was ok

I think maybe audiobook was a poor choice for this story. Because it jumps around in time, and she switches from 3rd to 1st person frequently, the story was confusing. I thought several things were unnecessary or overdone. I really only enjoyed the middle part where she was slipping into insanity. The rest was just boring and nonsensical. And because it jumped around and contradicted itself so many times, I nearly gave up trying to follow it. I was going to give it 3 stars, until I thought I was ...more

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