Bitters – Kaaron Warren

3 stars

Bitters has a very interesting premise: a huge metal man that gets bodies tossed in to eventually be digested and have the “juice” extracted from one of his big toes to help the people in town survive and thrive.

While certainly unique, parts of the story were pretty repetitive. I think maybe this book could have used more length to flesh out the characters more and build the world up around the Man. Everything outside of the Man felt static and flat, like it was there just so the Man could exist. I had a really hard time connecting with the characters as well, despite my general like for McNubbin and his wife, Wanda.

Some of the sentence structure was a little hard to read as well.  It rambled a bit and I got lost sometimes in the middle of a sentence and had to go back and read through the start of it again just to make sure I understood everything.

I think I would read more of this world if the author ever decided to explore it further, but it wouldn’t be a priority for me.