Aquariums

"Had a toad entered the room where he drew his first breath? The signs are always there. It's we humans who choose to ignore them." Émeraude is a marine biologist working hard to preserve aquatic ecosystems. This short novel follows her story from when she's a young girl right through to adulthood wh......more

The writing in this book is absolutely beautiful and I really enjoyed the ancestral stories. However, the way the chapters and multiple perspectives were laid out was somewhat confusing. I would forget who or what I was reading about at any given time. I think that if each character was given their......more

Hmm, hard to say for sure how I feel about this novella. I came for it because of its promising blurbs. A fiction story about a marine biologist is what interests me the most lately. In my opinion, the story just took so much time to heat up. We are constantly sidetracked by the main character's anc......more

There's some claim to this being SF, but only towards the end...the rest reads like historical fiction. It also reads like a series of past lives interfering with a story in the present day. They're supposedly linked, but this only becomes apparent near the end of the novel. Frankly, it's a sad, mel......more

Ce roman est prometteur à plusieurs égards, mais je suis restée sur ma faim. Je trouve dommage que l’autrice entame différentes pistes intéressantes à propos d’autres trames dont on devine le (maigre) lien avec le personnage principal, mais qu’elle ne les explore pas en profondeur. J’aurais aimé sav......more