A review by aylareve_reads
Thrum by Meg Smitherman

fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

“No matter how many times you try to go, you always come back.”


WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ hot alien?
✨ creepy spaceship
✨ am I into this?
✨ psychological horror
✨ wtf moments
✨ memory "issues"
✨ again, why am I horny?

MY THOUGHTS:
WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS CHOMPING AT THE BIT FOR THIS BOOK, I'M NOT LYING!

Ever since I read Meg's other books, I've ben in love with her writing. And when I saw the cover for this book?! Immediately in love. The cover is so creepy in a good way and I can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy.

This book is a giant WTF moment. Our FMC is stranded in deep space with her dead crew mates when an alien name Dorian just happens to be floating by and is willing to help her out. What happens after she boards his ship? SO MUCH.

I loved everything about this book. I honestly could't get a read on what was going to happen and I refused to get off my couch until I finished it. It was a wild ride from start to finish and I honestly didn't want it to end. This book had spice in a way that supported the story but didn't overshadow. It is such a great example that amazing books don't have to be long in order to captivate the reader.

The way that Meg wrote this book was pure magic. I was totally enthralled by her writing. The way she described things was absolutely wonderful. It had a way of pulling you in and immersing you in the world that was so captivating.

I honestly gave it a 4.5⭐ at first but the fact that I have not been able to stop thinking about it has made me give it a 5⭐. I love books that stay with me days after I've read them. Thrum is definitely on my list of recommendations for anyone wanting a sci-fi horror that will blow you away.

FAVORITE QUOTES:
  • “He wants to keep me here, he wants all of me, my body, my mind, my soul. He wants to hurt me, to own me.”
  • “Ami,” he groans. “I’ve waited so long for you.”
  • “I’m both adrift and trapped like a rabbit by a fox. And he is the fox, shadowed in dusk.”
  • “I feel the vastness at my back like a loving nightmare, tendrils of it wrapping around my ankles and throat until I’m inevitably lost to it. I keep imagining the cosmos wrenching me off the ship, dragging me deep into itself, and I am a prisoner there forever, eyes wide, my screams soundless in the vacuum.”