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Pandemic Through My Generation

Severance by Ling Ma

October 30, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

I tried to read this gem the first few weeks after the pandemic broke out in New York. Couldn’t do it. As it is significantly better than the other pandemic reads (Killing Williamsburg and Zone One), the fact that it dealt with a terrifying virus from China was hitting too close to home. It took months to work up the gumption to return to it. And I’m glad I did, because it is really good. Yes, the focus of it is a pandemic ruining the world. Shen […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ling Ma, New York City, pandemic, Severance

Jake's CBR12 Review No:164 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Ling Ma, New York City, pandemic, Severance ·
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Couldn’t put it down, but had to cuz SCARY, but then had to pick it back up again.

Severance by Ling Ma

February 8, 2020 by ardaigle 2 Comments

I love post-apocalyptic literature. Don’t know why, haven’t pulled at that thread, but it is my jaaam. My bread and butter. And other sandwich metaphors. So, I was predisposed to like this (cuz it’s my favorite genre) but also NOT like it, if it wasn’t well done. And it was so so well done. The day after I finished it, I bought it for someone else to read because I need them to read it so I can talk about it. I can’t stop thinking […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Ling Ma, Severance

ardaigle's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Ling Ma, Severance ·
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The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in.

Severance by Ling Ma

August 10, 2019 by tillie Leave a Comment

Severance is a beautiful book with a lovely pink cover and a mysterious title. It opens and unfolds slowly as you read and then it just stops. It jumps backwards and forwards in time in a slow, meandering pace that feels like it ultimately amounts to nothing. We begin by meeting Candace in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the population has succumbed to Shen fever. Candace has joined a small band of survivors, but she spends most of her time reminiscing about the time […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, cbrbingo11, Ling Ma, Own voices, Severance, tilliereads

tillie's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr11, cbrbingo11, Ling Ma, Own voices, Severance, tilliereads ·
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A second chance doesn’t mean you’re in the clear.

Severance by Ling Ma

June 30, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is honestly one of, if not the best, novels I have read this year (as in from the year 2019). I was kind of blown away at how much emotional depth and narrative depth there is in this novel. The novel is a kind of post-apocalyptic novel, and it is, but there’s so much background and context provided in the three different timelines and narratives happening in this novel, that’s it’s so much more than “just” a post-apocalyptic. So the timelines/narratives here: we have […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ling Ma, Severance

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:377 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ling Ma, Severance ·
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Deliverance

Severance by Ling Ma

May 19, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

Severance meanders; take that for what it is and don’t expect more from it and it becomes a valuable exploration of memory in contrast to the present. It’s for people who live in cities and love walking them, both familiar and unfamiliar parts. It’s for people who work because they need to do something, anything, nevermind, what it actually is. It’s for immigrants and people who feel trapped between more than one place, who have matured over states and provinces and cities and across lines. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, Fiction, Ling Ma, millenial, Severance, zombie

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, Fiction, Ling Ma, millenial, Severance, zombie ·
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