Review: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

Simply luminous.

I have read only a handful of five-star works of fiction this year and this book was a joy to read. A work of magical realism, Lang gives us a gentle protagonist, his sister, and his dearest friend and builds out the story that finds a marriage of magic and science that works beautifully and flows naturally, without a ridiculous need for contrived conflict. (Alex Can Read knows just what I mean by this statement...)

This book was a delight. I found it in some way reminiscent of Robert McCammon's Boy's Life albeit with more elements of overt magical realism and covering a longer period of adulthood in the protagonist's life.

Can't wait to read it again on audiobook.

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