Review: We are Wormwood by Autumn Christian
This is a dreamy nightmare of a book!
Dark Fiction | Goodreads | Amazon
Source: Received for Review Consideration
We Are Wormwood by Autumn Christian
Released July 2013Dark Fiction | Goodreads | Amazon
Source: Received for Review Consideration
Ever since she was a child, Lily has been pursued by a demonic girl with wormwood eyes.
As Lily struggles with her schizophrenic mother’s decline into insanity, the death of her somnambulist childhood love, and her own painful, disturbed adolescence, she must face the strange girl that haunts her.
Yet something is chasing her that is much more dangerous.
A darkly surreal, drug-coated romance, We are Wormwood tells an inhuman love story, and the transformation that results from affection among monsters.
As Lily struggles with her schizophrenic mother’s decline into insanity, the death of her somnambulist childhood love, and her own painful, disturbed adolescence, she must face the strange girl that haunts her.
Yet something is chasing her that is much more dangerous.
A darkly surreal, drug-coated romance, We are Wormwood tells an inhuman love story, and the transformation that results from affection among monsters.
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“When I was fourteen years old the cats in the neighborhood started losing their eyes”
Eeeeeh! How’s that for a teaser? We Are Wormwood isn’t a straightforward kind of read and it might not be a book that everyone will love equally so know what you’re getting into. It’s dreamy, the narrator and the world around her are basically 100% unreliable and the story and the prose are exquisitely poetic. I love this type of writing when I’m in a mood to sit down and be transported somewhere weird and unpredictable. If you’re like this as well, you’ll want to read it when you have some time to fall into its world.
A book like this is difficult to review because there is a very fine line between saying just enough and saying a little too much and spoiling its surprises. Basically it’s about a young girl named Lily and her strange and dark coming of age journey as she lives off and on with her schizophrenic mother and experiments with drugs. There are some strange sights to behold and Lily spends the majority of the story stumbling through life in a hazy otherworldly hallucinatory state. The reader and Lily are never quite sure what is real and what isn’t. It’s about fear and trauma and it reads like a nightmare. At times lucid, mostly not, the imagery and savagery and monsters on her back are all vivid, dirty and create scenes of disgusting beauty. I loved this book about a young girl growing up with madness nipping at her heels.
I also enjoyed all of the dark imagery within these pages and can’t wait to find some time to sit down with more from this author.
“Once you invade someone’s dreams you’re a part of them forever. For the rest of their life they’ll be spitting out little pieces of you.”
4 1/2 out of 5
I've never heard of this but it sounds like my kind of book! When I first saw the title I read it as "Christian book review" and almost didn't read it😁
ReplyDeleteAhhh, no! lol
DeleteThat sounds good in a creepy sort of way.
ReplyDeleteIt was creepy good!
DeleteLove that last quote! I can see why you like the writing in this one. :)
ReplyDeleteThere were so many great quotes in this book but that one was definitely a favorite.
DeleteOoh....I want this one!
ReplyDeleteYou should treat yourself!
DeleteI love the title of this one.
ReplyDeleteThe writing is very poetic. I think you'd like it!
DeleteSounds like a good read. Unreliable narrators are hit/miss with me though so I'm hesitant to pick this up. Maybe someday.
ReplyDeleteI can understand that :)
DeleteI would pick this one up for the cover alone! I do love a good darker read. Great review!
ReplyDeleteIt is such a lovely cover that suits the story so well.
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