on earth (i think) noah, in desperate need of a new shitty job with which to replace his old shitty job, applies at a ..newspaper (..i guess?) and is immediately hired (kind of?) and sent off to.. meet with a ..thing about ..something; meanwhile, Elsewhere, malachia wakes to find her city oddly void of it's residents, including her skeleton lesbian lover, and she sets off to confront the susurrating, corpse filled oak tree that's in charge of everything in hopes of finding answers. so, you know: totally generic story, tale as old as time etc.
i was delighted by this. much of it made absolutely no sense. it was charmingly bizarre and whimsically sinister and peppered with pages of wholeheartedly absurd newspaper ads, some of which made me giggle and some of which made me feel like someone was taking a bite (gently) right out of my heart.
the prose in this book was exquisite. the prose in this book was outlandishly beautiful. listen to me- the prose in this book wrapped it's hand around my throat and shoved me against the wall and flicked it's blade into my gut and i dropped to my knees in gratitude. i had to stop reading this fuckin thing literally several dozen times so that i could share little paragraphs and phrases to social media because i couldn't keep them to myself.
full disclosure, jordan is a friend of mine, so if you want to take this review with a grain of salt you're welcome to, but i was in awe of their writing via twitter long before we became pals and i promise you my review would be just as filled with gushing and heart-eyes if i didn't know them personally.
if you're into lovely fizzy sashaying weirdness, i highly recommend this. if you're looking for a plainly written, plot-forward story, i doubt you'll appreciate this. 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷
thanks to jordan for sending me an early review copy 💚
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