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Finished! Excellent book, no cats got eaten, satisfying ending, and I've learned that I can deal with horror literature quite well. Unrelatedly, I do feel the need to shower very extensively now.
Hardcover case illustration for a limited edition of Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher, for OwlCrate 🪱 I never thought I’d be illustrating botflies and screwworms, but they sure are fun to draw!
It is possible to preserve many insect larvae by pinning them, but since you have to remove the internal organs to keep them from rotting, they tend to collapse. Then you must reinflate them, using one of a number of patented caterpillar inflaters. It's worth it for things like caterpillars, where the color patterns are so important, but hardly anyone bothers with maggots. (I learned this, incidentally, over the course of a ten-minute lecture from Halder when I went to ask about the colors. I went back to my room and said "Patented caterpillar inflater," out loud several times and laughed so hard that Sally came to check on me.)
—Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
March Book Reviews: Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher
One of my anticipated new releases for this year. In Wolf Worm, orphan spinster Sonia desperately seizes a job working as a scientific illustrator for an entomologist studying parasitic insects. But all is not right in Doctor Halder's home, and Sonia begins to wonder about the missing woman whose room she's in, and about the mysterious shed in the woods...
I think whoever told Kingfisher about botflies should face criminal charges (complimentary). Wolf Worm commits much harder to the body horror than any of her previous novels, which is saying something. The plot is relatively straightforward—yes, there IS something wrong in the woods, which is slowly revealed over the course of the story. But I did enjoy the focus on scientific illustration. Like many Kingfisher protagonists, Sonia is a woman who loves her job, and I was fascinated by the glimpse into the delicate, focused world of illustration. And the caterpillar inflator. What can I say, it's a Kingfisher novel. If you've enjoyed her other books (and have a strong stomach), you'll probably like this one. If you live under a particularly large rock, you'll like this book if you enjoy stories with strong, sensible character voices and a morbid enthusiasm for describing the goriest bits of nature.
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Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
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