I really liked this. It was super creepy, and well written, and featured some surprisingly well-rounded out characters. Even though we only get a glimpse of the people that Sgt Parks, Dr. Caldwall, Miss Justineau, and the Private were before the Breakdown, we have a very solid idea of what they’ve become. Then there’s poor Melanie, who has only existed post-Breakdown. “…then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. […]
I’ve read my horror book for the year
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her “our little genius.” Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh. I can’t remember what first led me to The Girl With All the Gifts (2014) by M.R. Carey, but the above blurb sucked […]
Pandora Didn’t Ask for the Box
Malin’s review of The Girl with all the Gifts inspired me to read it (as with many of the books from my CBR this year, because you all write such intriguing reviews). I was not disappointed by the suggestion of this book, it was such a fresh and inventive book that I think will stick with me for a bit. It was horror in the lightest sense of the word, most of the horror has already occurred…and then again, much of the horror is only […]