Well, this was certainly an interesting story - featuring people gradually transforming into various animals - with a whole bunch of quite graphic details to go along with it.

And maybe it's not quite gore, but I feel as though there should probably be some sort of content warning, because I imagine that the graphic details in regards to the characters' transformations and their increasingly non-human biological functions might be incredibly off-putting to some. Yes, the expression "body horror" definitely lies close at hand when describing this story - because it is a story featuring a great deal of it, but also a great deal of other things.

As a concept, it was definitely interesting, and the interactions in-between Lyall, his group of friends/fellow animal hybrids and the world at large was quite thought-provoking. Their conditions reminded me of real-life people getting diagnosed with some serious incurable illness and them making funeral arrangements. Here, a different sort of arrangement is made: an arrangement for their lives after they "fully go", losing both their human form and touch with their humanity - as much as the latter holds true, of course.

And while the bit with animal transformations and the character's dealing with them was intriguing in and by itself, I was a bit off-put by the repetitive focus on certain anatomy - namely the transformation of the nether regions - as well as other changes relating to those. I mean, yes, I can understand that they're sort of included in the whole package, but it's not the sort of thing that I really want to read about.

I was also irritated by the instances where the verb tense suddenly shifted, adding present tense into a paragraph featuring past tense, disrupting the "grammatical temporal harmony" or whatever one might call it.

All in all though, this was a decent read, even though I myself doubt I'll ever read it again.

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