Extraordinary, delirious, overlong, meandering, overstuffed, frustrating. At once bursting with ideas and incident and somehow undercooked (characterization is slight, esp. the women). The strand detailing the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge was the most engaging for me, but it also felt like it belonged in a different novel (I realise there are thematic links to the rest of the novel). VanderMeer had it right when he described The Vorrh as resembling a lost Symbolist novel... strong on hallucinatory imagery, weak on plot.

Surreal and original. Contains too many adjectives. A bit problematic.

A deeply weird book. Strange and wonderful. There is absolutely nothing like this book it's so unusual and dark and with terrible meanings. I remember it like a fever dream and certain passages are so brilliant but perhaps becuse it dosnt follow any traditional story structurs and weaves all over the place it's difficult to remember and therefore difficult to love. The characters are brilliant and memorable but not neccesarily characters you would easily relate to and root for so not sure if I will read the sequels tho I kinda want to because it's so strange and apparantly Oscar wilde is in the second book. Slay.

The entire time I was reading this I couldn't decide if I liked it. Still haven't decided. Oh well !

Poetic and imaginative but a difficult read; the story just didn't flow quite smoothly enough together to keep my interest.

The book started if not with tonnes of promise,with some beautiful writing and descriptions of feelings. You do have some spots that suck you in but you are promptly spit into another story line not to see the one that interested you for PAGES. Often the answers I really wanted in the book were decided to be unimportant by the author and wrapped up hastily or not addressed again at all. So many characters it is hard to keep them straight, and just about every character becomes less likeable as the story progresses,some with reason others less so.
Why is Edison here? Why is the Winchester widow being introduced?
Description is often wasted on odd and inconsequential passages. I wanted to feel this forest is it verdant?
Why am I reading about a lilac convertible all of a sudden.
Why is it important that this man is sitting in front of a round table? Some of the sentence just struck me as clunky and bothered me when there was SO many other things I wanted described or answered.
Some of the prose was truly beautiful but this seemed to be at the beginning of the book and sadly didn’t last to our final chapters when they would of held more weight.

Personally won’t be continuing the series

It’s pretty weird, and at times I thought about stopping. But it’s not horrible, it just took way too long for the different story lines to connect and when they eventually did I still was confused. I just don’t think I got it but there were some interesting ideas.