3.5
The Child Garden
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3.5
“This was a random book I picked up in the science fiction section of a bookstore. The name caught my eye, and the back of the book enticed me enough to buy it. I was really enjoying it to be honest. It randomly became a kind of forbidden, lesbian love story after a while which I was into. I wish they would’ve really been gay together, though, but spoiler alert they didn’t :(
This book in general was really weird. I did have to read some other reviews after I was done because there were some things that are easily misunderstood when reading this book. Definitely some loose ends. Homosexuality is bad in this book, but men are able to get pregnant, and everyone’s chill with that. That was a little strange.
So, is essentially why Milena can’t work with the viruses is because she always had cancer from the beginning? I wonder that, too. I really did like the characters though. I want to know more about their lives, and learning about Jacob’s death really left me sad. I liked him a lot even though he was a smaller side character.
This is definitely worth the read if you want a super weird sci fi book that is still good and believable to read. some goofyness in terminology, but if that’s just taken seriously, it’s not so bad at all.”
Change and growLikeableMemorableMinor characters stand outMorally ambiguousMultilayeredOriginalConfusingGripping/excitingLoose endsNonlinear narrativeTwistyUneven pacingAtmosphericBleakDystopianEerieEvocative imageryFuturisticMysteriousOtherworldlySetting fits the storySurrealClunkyDenseDescriptiveFlowery/lushOriginalTakes getting used toWhimsical toneExplicit sexual contentHomophobiaReligious intolerance
“I read this in my twenties during a feverish hoovering of books published under the SF Masterworks banner. It was, therefore, against some pretty stiff competition. I read it, was suitably awed and bewildered, I thought it became somewhat too operatic (literally) and overwrought.
But something about The Child Garden made me read it again and that was when it really walloped me around the face with sheer inventiveness, weirdness, rawness of emotion and grandiosity. A remarkable protagonist, remarkable characters, gorgeous, tragic, terrifying.
For quite some time I've mentioned it when asked which is my favourite book (an annoying, impossible question, granted). Maybe it still is though The Magus by John Fowles is definitely up there.”
“DNF for me.”
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