Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center? The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions? Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa? But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it.
No tags were found Short-link Link Embed. Share from cover. You remember the story? That gorilla could communicate with the humans. And, the humans naturally loved Coco, and Coco loved the humans. Does this mean that Coco and the humans should have gotten down with hot monkey sex?
Because that is gross, and weird, and wrong, and about a thousand ways to Sunday creepy. Yet, the extent of the communication between Swamp Thing and our heroine is actually less than Coco's communication and understanding with her human caretakers. Sure, his thoughts were sweet, pure, and simple. But, they were NOT sexy. And, not that particularly intelligent. Yes, it is sentient, but not even close to being like us.
To me, this made the idea of Swampy Sexy Times very icky. My name's not even Doreen. Swamp Thing is a moron. But, if you could erase all of the mental images I just put into your head, you will love this book.
Because it is intriguing and has a fun throw-back to the 's feel to it. It's totally worth reading. For a variety of reasons. And before TSoW, I considered a ten page chapter to be short. Getting through five chapters went a lot quicker than it usually does.
The short, powerful chapters had an effect usually reserved for significantly longer books—I felt like I knew the characters, and knew them well, almost immediately. The story itself. It had ups and downs. Pretty simple, right? Government bad, underdog good. Love conquers all. Yes and no. Elisa is an orphan with mysterious scars on her throat, the byproduct of a surgery she has no memory of or explanation for that left her unable to speak.
Her loneliness is palpable. His training only serves to give him the experience and authority to break more shit than a civilian could. And the list goes on. All of this is made more intense by the s setting. The evil man has more power. The orphan, the gay man, the black woman, and the white housewife have fewer options, are thoughtlessly victimized in ways that fifty years later seem incomprehensible.
In the words of book bff: those fingers will haunt me forever. You: What fingers? You: Eww. Me: You have no idea. A couple of lost digits, etc. Tina Haigler. This book was beautiful.
I can't think of any other way to describe it. The story, the characters, the words themselves. It was all beautiful. The best way I can think of to describe the way this book made me feel is I'm a shoreline and the words in this book are the waves in the ocean, coming and going, each time leaving something, but also taking something with them when they leave.
The book is split into four parts. Parts one and two are mostly storytelling, atmosphere building, and character development. Parts three and four are where most of the action is. Getting through the first two parts is worth it, once the story picks up pace and the excitement starts. To be honest, the first half of the book is very interesting but it's not very exciting.
You can tell from the length of the chapters if it is going to be storytelling or action. Anything over two pages is storytelling.
I really enjoyed the pace of the action chapters and how quickly it switches points of view. It gave a sense of urgency to the story. The characters were amazing as well. Even the characters I didn't like were fascinating. There's the main protagonist, Elisa, an orphan who is mute, works as a janitor, and has a serious shoe fetish.
Also her next door neighbor Giles, an elderly, homosexual artist, her best friend Zelda, a fellow janitor, Hoffstetler, a Russian scientist assigned to the creature, and the creature, of course, who was never given a name, was sometimes referred to as the asset.
The main antagonist is Strickland, a military man, in charge of the creature. We also have POV chapters of his wife, Mrs. Strickland, but she is more of a connecting character, interacting with characters of the main story but never interacting with the main story itself. I didn't love Elisa but I didn't hate her. She kind of wallowed in her own pity and I'm never fond of that. She had a terrible upbringing though so I tried to be sympathetic.
I did love Giles, Zelda, and the creature though. Zelda has that spunk that I love to see in characters and Giles was just a sweet old man. The creature was magnificent and I would've loved to learn more about him.
Hoffstetler was more of a gray character. You never really knew if he would do the right thing or not. Strickland was one of my favorites to read. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this non fiction, science story are ,.
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