Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Flowers for the Sea, by Zin Rocklyn

Maybe better than a 2 but not a 3. The book jacket description--Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia Butler--is pretty accurate. Kind of dead on really. There's a lot of really luscious description of body horror, quite organic and messy. Pregnant Iraxi is definitely a force on this doomed ark (climate change refugees, probably?) in all sorts of ways. As literature it works pretty well. But it feels like it is just getting started, and yet had nowhere to go. So in the end just OK for me. Some uniqueness as a Black horror writer, it comes through in the writing, not quite enough for me to really like it.


My Goodreads Review

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