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This is the 4th or 5th time I’ve read The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall and I loved it just as much as previously.
Eric Sanderson wakes up with no memories. Not of his life, the world, or himself. When he finds a letter to him from himself, he ends up on a journey to find himself and what he’s lost.
I’m not sure where I first picked this book up but I’m so glad I did! I know it was many years ago and that when I first read it, I had never read anything quite like it before. This book is hard to describe but it plays with memory, dreams, language, linguistics, communication and context. This book has a love story, an adventure, a journey, and a shark hunt. Shark Texts uses language and writing to add to the story in a visual way. Raw Shark Texts is a weird book but it’s also weirdly compelling. There’s so much going on but the reader is drawn to the characters and the mystery. I like how the use of word pictures add to the tension of this book, which already has some very tense moments. This book is quite long, for me anyway, but it does ready quite quickly and is a fact paced adventure. It’s really hard to sum up this book, but I would highly recommend this book to those who found some of this review intriguing, readers who love weird books, people who like books about language and writing, and those who like amnesia stories.
I recommended this book to my favorite booktuber in a video. I had my husband read it when we were firdt dating, Currently my BFF is borrowing it to read. What book do you always recommend to people?
This book can be seen in my April Wrap Up.