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A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock
Narrated by: Keval Shah
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It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants-lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he's seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.

Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.

The experiment-or Chloe, as she is named-outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?

©2024 Noah Medlock (P)2024 Tantor Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literature & Fiction

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A very odd story! It certainly felt as though the writer wrote what they wanted to, and were not too constrained by meddling editors. Which is overall a good thing - it reads passionately - but also makes for rather a strange read/listen. The performance is excellent, just the person to impersonate Victorian upper class males, and does a good job at the females, too. The details are lovely, there are just some higher-level decisions (i.e. the number of deaths!!) that jar a little for me personally.

Quite a surprisingly high body count!

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I’m really enjoying this story, but the reader made the choice to read the presumably not ancient protagonists as though they were the stuffiest nasally unpleasant people. I don’t understand why no one stopped him. It’s so hard to listen to that I may actually have to switch to a hardcopy to finish this.

Such an enjoyable story read so poorly

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What a shame - these voices and accents are terrible .. ruined it. What even is the accent Jennifer has? plot is intriguing but I’d rather read it on Kindle .

Terrible voices

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Read this for bookclub. Didn’t enjoy this story. The characters were 2 dimensional, the dialogue stilted, and it felt like they were badly cosplaying at being Victorians. I wanted to hear more from the “monster’s” point of view but we are denied her story. A great idea potentially but poorly written.

Mehster rather than monster

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The narration of this book was awful, with inconsistent character voices and weird spontaneous accent changes. I listened on 2x speed just to make some of the lower voices higher as they made it very difficult to picture the characters. Was Gregor an old man? I have no idea. The story was a really interesting take on Frankenstein’s monster, and did keep me interested, however there were several points where it seemed rushed or like there was no clear plan for the plot. The characters were inconsistent in their, well, characters, and it the relationships were weirdly forced. And don’t get me started on the creepy plant-corpse sex. Overall just a very weird book.

Awful narration; intriguing story; poor execution

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