The Unveiling by Quan Barry

genre: fiction

Even with all of the world she's already seen, Striker's still amazed by the vastness and beauty of Antarctica. Despite most of the people on the cruise ship drive her crazy, it's hard not to be awed by the scenery. When her kayaking excursion goes wrong, though, the lines around reality seem to blur.

This book was like a fever dream. I did not like it. It starts off like an actual story taking place in this actual world. But soon it's like I'm reading through a curtain, and I have no idea of what is real and what is not and sometimes it's so gross but then the gross thing isn't real or it's a ghost but in this world are ghosts real? I have no idea. It was just not fun to piece it together. When Striker's talking about the past, I was solid and I felt compassion for her childhood experiences. But then you zip back almost mid sentence to the present and the present is a s**t show. I don't hate books like this in theory, sometimes they come together and I'm awed by how things click, but this was not the case. I kept reading, thinking at some point it would coalesce in my brain but no. The writing is not bad, I just still can't even tell what I actually read.