Borne

Dieses Buch ist eher langsam erzählt, dies tut der Story allerdings überhaupt keinen Abbruch, denn so können wir die Welt in der Rachel und Wick leben besser kennenlernen und auf uns wirken lassen. Rachel und Wick habe ich sehr in mein Herz geschlossen. Und irgendwie auch Borne. Ich habe immer mit ihnen mitgefiebert, denn die Welt ist so fantastisch wie düster und sie mussten einige Widrigkeiten durchleben. Am Schreibstil des Autors gefällt mir besonders, wie er zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen darstellt. Er schreibt sie mit so einem Gefühl und einer Tiefe. Mit einer bestimmten Wendung im Buch habe ich auch so gar nicht gerechnet. Eine große Leseempfehlung für alle diejenigen die gerne sich langsam aufbauende fantastische düstere Geschichten mit Protagonisten mit Tiefe lesen möchten.

Borne is very similar to [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403941587s/17934530.jpg|24946895] by the same author, but still different. In both works we get an interesting look into the thoughts and psyche of our female main character, there is a dystopian place of some kind and the protagonists are more or less alone there, so there are very few characters. But while Annihilation is more about the place and what it does to people, this book is more about relationships, and while both of this books tackle both of these aspects, I prefered Borne a little over Annihilation. If you are open for some strange things existing in this book (a huge flying bear, biotech etc.) underneath this novelties you will find a story that includes existential and other questions as well as interesting and believable relationships and characters. There are elements of science fiction, fantasy and horror in this book, but on its core it is the story of a woman that finds something or someone and raises it like a child, even though she knows nothing about the creature. Since it is more about feelings, relationships, the past and secrets, it can probably feel slow for some people, but if you dont need action in every other scene, there is enough happing to keep the interest up. I very much liked how this book reads as the report of the happenings by our main character Rachel, which gives her the opportunity to self-reflect on how she felt and acted. The names of the chapters really pleased me as well and really made me wanting to keep reading, contrary to normal chapter titles, which mostly are pretty vague and make no sense before reading the chapter, in this book they provide the reader with a pretty clear idea of what to expect, being formulated like "What I found and how I found it". It was fitting to the beautifull writing style of [a:Jeff VanderMeer|33919|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1400594878p2/33919.jpg]. If you are open to some weird ideas and dont necessarily need the boundaries of genres, if you like stories that feel personal and focus on characters more than on action, I can recommand this to you as something special. It definitely wont please everyone, but it is worth giving it a try.

Nicht schlecht geschrieben, aber so eine Apokalypse, die ich nicht ertragen kann..