Shark Heart

Pros

• Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Basically think instead of terminal illness, people turn into animals. You follow this journey of a women dealing with her husband turning into a shark. It deals with her grief of losing her husband, her stru...
• Parent context: Maybe also these, but I haven't finished them yet: * Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Reply: I came here to recommend Shark Heart! That is a genuinely special book.
• I loved this book. It was so bizarre but it really made me think about grief, marriage, and the concept of “in sickness and in health/til death do us part.”
• For me I actually appreciated the structure of the book as it reminded me a lot of a three act play, particularly in the style of Thornton Wilder (it reminded me a lot of The Skin of Our Teeth more than Our Town despite Our Town being th...
• Weird af but awesome: Shark Heart

Cons

• There are some aspects of it that I truly loved but other parts seem interminable. It feels meandering. It keeps going, but it ultimately doesn't really feel like it ends up anywhere.
• Loved the first part and then it went downhill.
• I also agree about the ending, it's so horrific the implication of the daughter's fate but it's written like a Google commercial with that kind of fake life affirming feel good vibe.
• I filed this one along with Nightbitch -- it would make an incredible novella leaving you with lots to think about, but then it stretches out the original idea in not very interesting ways in order to make it a longer (maybe more marketa...
• I dnf’d this book, but I hate when a book has a natural, satisfying conclusion & then it’s just keeps going. I’ve had 5 star books knocked down to 3 by an epilogue.