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4.25 out of 5 stars.

Now this is how you write satire! I can't believe this book has less than 5k ratings on ŷ������, Venomous Lumpsucker deserves way more popularity. If you love reading sci-fi, you will definitely love this!

Venomous Lumpsucker is set in the near future, in a world where numerous non-human species are going extinct at unprecedented rates. The novel grapples with the consequences of such mass extinction and biodiversity loss and with performative environmentalism, and it does so in part through the use of satire.

❝Evolution was a monstrous maker, a blind heedless thing inching along in no particular direction, the whole disaster fueled by spilled blood and wasted effort, Amazon rivers of both.��

The writing, the wit, the humour �� all of it was exactly my style. I enjoyed Venomous Lumpsucker so much more than I was initially expecting! It actually made me laugh multiple times, and that's saying a lot considering the book's depressing subject matter :')

❝The endangered and the extinct, the remnants and the endlings. The only living things that really mattered to her. She would lie there, uncomplaining, as they ate her flesh.��

Immediately after finishing the book, I was unsure how to feel about the ending. It felt kinda anticlimactic to me. But now, after several months have passed since I finished the book, I wouldn't wish for a different ending! Perhaps it is a bit of a fatalistic ending, but at the same time I think it is also very realistic.

❝Probably some little drone was already on its way to check what had happened. These days you were always under surveillance wherever you went �� what a heavenly time to be alive.��

[read this for my Critical Ecologies course]