Ann Walker
6/6/2018
I read this for a "Non-Human Character" slot. I felt like it would be cheating to reread the Murderbot, or Watership Down, and I had just read that one about the sentient trees... but this was one of the oddest books I have ever read. And the author would have been able to pull off the weirdness, maybe (after all, people have written, and written well, about rabbits and their mythos, and sentient trees. and...) but his writing style just felt flat, amateurish - as if an 11-year-old boy, reasonably skillful in writing, had gotten this GREAT idea, and sat down with a notebook and pencil until he got it all down. If I hadn't been reading for that challenge, I probably would have bailed on it, but on the other hand, what was going on in this book was so entirely outrageous that I kept on reading to see what the heck was going to happen next.