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Dec 16, 2017bairdbrain rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Oh, Louise. You had a bucket of herring, many of them red, and you threw them all around in this book. I found myself gulping it down, hoping the flavors would meld, but was thwarted in my expectation of a satisfying meal. Phil has wings, then doesn't, tantalizing mentions of reverse evolution are never fleshed out, many of the finest characters disappear, and in a highly surveilled dystopian world a woman manages to hide a subversive journal for nine months, many of them in captivity. I was captive to the book too, and sad to see it dissolve into a stew of religious fever dreams and unresolved imaginings. So many flashes of brilliance failing to coalesce.