![]() ![]() VanderMeer is so clever at story structure, and I love it when he hits me with a great bait and switch. Ultimately, the love story this adventure morphed into by the end was my favorite thing about the Strange Bird. Hell, the Southern Reach Trilogy wasn’t exactly an “easy read”, but it was brilliant, so I’m looking forward to getting more far out with the Dead Astronauts because I really love it when VanderMeer gets ultra strange. Vandermeer uses third-person limited voice to describe the journey through the eyes of the Strange Bird. I’m looking forward to reading Dead Astronauts now even though so many people have described it as hard to read. Set in the same elegantly wasted world as Jeff VanderMeer’s last, The Strange Bird is ostensibly an embellishment of Borne that crosses paths with any number of that extraordinary narrative’s. Jeff Vandermeer’s novel is divided into 23 chapters detailing the journey of a Strange Bird as she follows her inner compass through a post-apocalyptic world. I only hope that one day a small illustrated hardcover edition is made, because it’s so good it deserves more than a paperback in my opinion. How she treats the children and Charlie X, which I found to be a great little character. Her villainy really comes across stronger in this book, and the descriptions what goes on within her observatory are great. I really loved getting to know the Magician a little more. I found this little novella to be an absolute tear jerker, more so than Borne. ![]()
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