Beast

Overall this was a very mixed experience: there are very few things I enjoyed and a lot things I didn't but as a complete work I somehow don't hate it? I would say I'm pretty meh (but on the more negative end) about it ~What I liked~ ° the topic of 'how humans fucked up the ecosystem and now there's no nature balance' was covered a lot ° it was surprising in who was killed/not killed ° it was suspenseful and gory at times ~What I didn't like~ ° there was a lot of talk about how this animal was 'truly evil' and 'wanted to just hurt things for fun' which really isn't how animals work (some characters argued against this but somehow it still stuck the entire book) ° in general it doesn't come across as 'sciency' (which was what I was expecting) because of some very unrealistic events ° the way this book is written makes it very hard to follow the story: there are a lot of characters weirdly introduced or just major time/scenery changes without ANY indication of it happening One sentence you were on the boat, next sentence they were having a meeting a week later ° in addition there are some comments/phrases/story choices that rub you the wrong way when you read it today: one in specific made me look at the entire book more negatively because I really didn't appreciate it ° also there were a lot of 'see how the monster kills scenes' were a lot of characters were introduced but that wasn't done well and was rather confusing