Wallaby

This book reminds me a lot of the Witcher. A cynical man with loose morals starts a journey with a young girl who slowly gains amazing powers.

In this book, there is a lot of character development, redemption arcs, and tragic irony. There is a lot of biblical references and mentions of Catholic saints, more than I expected, but I enjoyed it and got me thinking a lot about violence, destiny, and forgiveness.

Hard to give one review for this book. The first half, Killers on the Road is a really good and well written hitchhiker horror. The Babysitter Lives is also genuinely great and scary in the first half, but really falters towards the end. I had a strong urge to just skim the second half of the story since nothing is happening. Nonetheless, liked the concepts explored in both stories and will read more SGJ in the future.

I liked the zombie-mushroom borg collective concept, but I felt like the story was way too short and I did not find the main character interesting. I will read more T. Kingfisher books though

The book went into a lot of detail of the landscape of the world with complex and rare words, but that added to the overall alieness. How different and alien everything was is my favorite part of the book.

The overall vibe of the book reminded me a lot of Speaker For The Dead.

Really interesting horror story that is very disturbing