Swansong

Swansong by Rose Christo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3.5

This might be the first of Christo's novels that's a little hard for me to rate/review. Did I enjoy it? Yes. But there was a lot of info. that just made this story drag a little for me. What I had to keep in mind at all times was that Wendy's mind is damaged, so the story being from her POV might seem not to make any kind of sense-which was part of the point, I think. It made me grasp that fear and confusion that Wendy had to live with daily. It felt like being in an elevator and not knowing whether you're going up or down or even sideways and each time you step out you get this alternate universes where the characters are the same, just maybe not having the same roles to play. Just for a few seconds I felt like I'd grasped the real one only to lose it just as quickly. Azel and Wendy were very sweet together, he made me feel a sense of safety; he was an old soul, full of kindness and great wisdom. This novel is very much about philosophy, astronomy, physics, biology (neuroscience), a lot of it. But what it boiled down to for me was a 16 yr. old girl trying to make sense of her great loss, trying to cope with the dramatic changes she went through after her accident. It was about her reconnecting with the world, trying to find her place and will to live in it.

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