Originally Written: December 13, 2024
And it just.......ends?
Like that?
I'm sorry to say that it took me forever to get into reading this book. In fact, I was still in the first chapter last night and thinking I would return it to the library, put my name on the hold list, and try reading it again however many weeks from now when it gets back to me. But it's a novella, and I told myself to power through.
Interesting concepts, I'll give it that. The workings of something chilling that just never fully hits its stride for me. I was bored for the most part and I still have so many questions about the characters more so than the story itself.
Either way, I've seen other books use mushrooms as some kind of contagion done with more oomph than this one had. Specifically the novella What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, whose cover seems to have at least inspired this one. And I loved that story.
Or is it fungus? Spores, mold and fungus to be precise, for those of us that recognize the quote and can pull off the impression.
Well, I say as long as my mushrooms are cooked and on pizza or in pasta, I think I'll keep them on my menu. I haven't seen enough in this story to make me set them aside for awhile as I process new squick feelings about them. So that's a bummer in its own way, I guess.
Rating 1.5 Stars
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