Chlorine A Novel

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Bewertung am 23.05.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2497672
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

This book is so incredibly haunting. I will never be able to see mermaids the same way again. And who would have thought that I would be obsessed with mermaids again as an adult. In Chlorine we follow a young girl that wants nothing in life more than to become a mermaid and this story is her metamorphosis into becoming one. It is her descent into madness. The story has a beautiful build up, the writing is good and you could practically smell the chlorine from the swimming pool while reading. It is a story where you don't quite know what is going on at times because the narrator is unreliable and fooling not only herself but also the reader. Chlorine is a novel that is perfect for everyone that loves a bit of unreliability in their narrator and quite a bit of insanity.

Drowning in Horror

Bewertung (Mitglied der Book Circle Community) am 21.01.2026
Bewertungsnummer: 3019129
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Chlorine is horror in its purest form or rather, a deep exploration of how far horror can go. Jade Song delves into the dark side of competitive swimming, adolescence and pressures from all the sides. Blending racism and misogyny with a slow, chilling descent into madness. The story is tense and suffused with dread. As a reader you know something is coming, but not when, how or why. The book also serves as a bitterly honest portrait of growing up as a girl in a patriarchal society, in a culture that fetishizes women’s bodies. Song handles this with raw realism rather than pure shock value, making it gut-wrenching and profoundly haunting. This isn’t a book for new horror readers! Chlorine is intense! It’s perfect for anyone ready to confront darkness that feels all too real. But even for me, some chapters and scenarios were almost too much to handle. All in all, Jade Song is an author to watch, and I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for their future work.