Review: The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson (Spoiler-Free)

'With each failure, each insult, each wound to the psyche, we are created anew.' - Theophilus Roshodan

This was fun enough to read, but didn't carry a lot of weight for me.

I can see what Tade Thompson was trying to do here, especially with the epigraph above, but the sparse writing didn't quite get me there. I appreciate the implications of the premise, what the literal manifestation of your blood forming new beings could mean, yet the whole time I just kept thinking Bones & All did this way better with the opposite gimmick. Both stories involve tamping down facets of yourself; this one didn't quite have the page count to feel meaningful.

Still was gory and fun, but can't say I'm going to continue the series.