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Amphibian
'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger
'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty' Rebecca Stott
Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.
But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she's no longer alone. Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.
Over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.
Amphibian is a tender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives.
'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty' Rebecca Stott
Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.
But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she's no longer alone. Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.
Over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.
Amphibian is a tender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives.
287 pages, Hardcover
Published August 8, 2024
About the author
Tyler Wetherall
2 books54 followersTyler Wetherall is a British journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, followed her childhood growing up as the daughter of a federal fugitive and international pot smuggler. The Washington Post called it, "a luminous memoir that no one who reads it will soon forget.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Vice, Condé Nast Traveler, and LitHub, amongst others. Amphibian is her debut novel.
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July 4, 2024
Amphibian is one of those books that I love and hate in equal measure. I only say I hate it because the characters are so well defined that I spent a lot of time being angry with them. It's a mark of good storytelling but it does my blood pressure no favours.
The story revolves around Sissy who is at another new school. She never seems to fit in anywhere and is firmly of the belief that her body is becoming something other. Her strangeness makes her the object of derision to the other children but after one episode of bullying she fights back and earns the respect of cool girl, Tegan.
The two girls lives intertwine as they make the first steps into puberty learning about love, desire and forbidden fruit as around them someone is snatching girls off the streets and Mou, Sissy's unstable mother lurches from one crisis to another.
Tyler Weatherall's book looks at family, friendship, desire, love, stability and rebellion through the eyes of two young girls just trying to understand the adult world.
I found Amphibian a compelling tale right up until the very peculiar magical realism towards the end. It just seemed to be plonked onto the end of the book with little leading up to it. Sissy's odd transformation isn't really explained or delved into further and I didn't really understand the need for it.
Apart from that one niggle I'd recommend this book.
Thankyou to Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group for the advance review copy.
The story revolves around Sissy who is at another new school. She never seems to fit in anywhere and is firmly of the belief that her body is becoming something other. Her strangeness makes her the object of derision to the other children but after one episode of bullying she fights back and earns the respect of cool girl, Tegan.
The two girls lives intertwine as they make the first steps into puberty learning about love, desire and forbidden fruit as around them someone is snatching girls off the streets and Mou, Sissy's unstable mother lurches from one crisis to another.
Tyler Weatherall's book looks at family, friendship, desire, love, stability and rebellion through the eyes of two young girls just trying to understand the adult world.
I found Amphibian a compelling tale right up until the very peculiar magical realism towards the end. It just seemed to be plonked onto the end of the book with little leading up to it. Sissy's odd transformation isn't really explained or delved into further and I didn't really understand the need for it.
Apart from that one niggle I'd recommend this book.
Thankyou to Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group for the advance review copy.
August 3, 2024
The lyrical writing is the star of the show in this strange and poetic account of female adolescence. In lots of ways we've all read this story before: the passionate friendship between precocious 'cool girl' Tegan and our misfit narrator, Sissy; secrets, betrayal, underage sexuality, first periods. What gives this its edge is Sissy's mythic imagination and her innocent present tense voice as she deals with problems a twelve year old shouldn't have to face. I enjoyed this but look forward to Wetherall turning her undoubted talent to a fresher story. 3.5 stars for a told-before tale rounded up for the lovely writing.
September 2, 2024
I want a bonus chapter where we kill Peter
January 5, 2025
4.75✩ ”Girl, creature, animal, woman. Girl, creature, amphibian, myth. We are changing and what we’re changing into is of our making. In this story, we get to choose.”
would recommend this for fans of Tiffany McDaniel but would also highly recommend checking cws/tws before reading!
note: the only reason im holding back from the full 5 is because there’s a term thats used in the later part of the book that im pretty sure is now considered a Romani slur? (and this book was published in 2024)
would recommend this for fans of Tiffany McDaniel but would also highly recommend checking cws/tws before reading!
note: the only reason im holding back from the full 5 is because there’s a term thats used in the later part of the book that im pretty sure is now considered a Romani slur? (and this book was published in 2024)
June 12, 2024
This was such a heart-breaking read. I pieced together what was going on with Tegan pretty quickly but it didn't make the revelation any less sinister. It shows the power friendships can have at an early age and how they can affect on the rest of you life, especially the intense friendship Sissy and Tegan share.
This book also explores the harsh realities of mental health and I think it is done so well.
I would recommend looking at TW before reading this book.
Thank you Virago and Netgalley for the arc!
This book also explores the harsh realities of mental health and I think it is done so well.
I would recommend looking at TW before reading this book.
Thank you Virago and Netgalley for the arc!
November 29, 2024
Full Rating: 4.75 stars rounded up
Thank you to the author for the gifted ARC! This is out in the US from Ig Publishing now.
Tyler Wetherall’s Amphibian is a haunting, lyrical exploration of girlhood—its desires, betrayals, and transformations. Through the eyes of Sissy, a young girl navigating a turbulent coming-of-age, Wetherall crafts a narrative that is both raw and dreamlike, blending visceral realism with fantastical elements.
Sissy is a deeply introspective character, drawn to water and its transformative power. Her fixation on her body—its budding sexuality and strange metamorphoses—anchors the story in the liminal space between childhood innocence and adult desire. As she moves with her emotionally fragile mother, Mou, to a new town in England’s West Country, Sissy’s world is shaped by longing: for stability, understanding, and the magnetic pull of her classmate, Tegan. Their friendship, marked by both tenderness and turbulence, propels Sissy toward self-discovery while exposing the precariousness of girlhood friendships.
Wetherall’s writing brims with poetic cadence and evocative imagery. Sissy’s voice oscillates between sharp clarity and dreamlike musing, mirroring the fragmented, chaotic nature of adolescence. The story is layered with symbolic transformations, from Sissy’s webbed toes and growing tail to the mythic parallels she draws with mermaids and Eve. These symbols underscore the fragility and inevitability of change, often intertwined with pain, societal expectation, and desire.
Sexuality lies at the heart of Amphibian, exploring the hypersexualization of girls in a world that denies them the safety to navigate their own desires. Sissy’s fear of being labeled or shamed, even as she craves power and connection, captures the dissonance many young girls face. Wetherall deftly unpacks how girls are often taught that their worth is tied to the sexual desire they elicit, pushing them toward dangerous territory in search of agency.
The novel’s darker threads unravel through the presence of Tegan’s sister, Haley, whose world of parties, drugs, and predators exposes Sissy and Tegan to adult dangers too soon. The trauma Sissy witnesses—her complicity in silence, her mother’s neglect, and her friendship’s unraveling—converges in a climax that feels both inevitable and devastating.
Through Amphibian, Wetherall crafts a powerful meditation on girlhood’s contradictions: its beauty and violence, its vulnerability and strength. Sissy’s transformation—both physical and emotional—remains etched in the mind, a reminder of the messy, magical metamorphoses that define growing up.
📖 Recommended For: Fans of lyrical and introspective prose, readers captivated by the turbulence of girlhood friendships, anyone drawn to coming-of-age stories with a touch of magical realism, and admirers of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield or Chlorine by Jade Song.
🔑 Key Themes: The Complexities of Girlhood, Sexuality and Shame, Transformation and Identity, Betrayal and Intimacy, Power Dynamics in Female Relationships.
Content / Trigger Warnings: Mental Illness (minor), Suicide (minor), Fatphobia (minor), Sexual Assault (minor), Sexual Harassment (minor), Sexual Content (minor), Bullying (minor), Child Abuse (minor), Abandonment (minor), Animal Death (severe), Toxic Friendship (moderate), Torture (minor), Animal Cruelty (severe), Violence (minor), Blood (minor), Murder (minor), Alcohol (minor), Drug Use (minor), Adult-Minor Relationship (minor), Kidnapping (minor).
Thank you to the author for the gifted ARC! This is out in the US from Ig Publishing now.
Tyler Wetherall’s Amphibian is a haunting, lyrical exploration of girlhood—its desires, betrayals, and transformations. Through the eyes of Sissy, a young girl navigating a turbulent coming-of-age, Wetherall crafts a narrative that is both raw and dreamlike, blending visceral realism with fantastical elements.
Sissy is a deeply introspective character, drawn to water and its transformative power. Her fixation on her body—its budding sexuality and strange metamorphoses—anchors the story in the liminal space between childhood innocence and adult desire. As she moves with her emotionally fragile mother, Mou, to a new town in England’s West Country, Sissy’s world is shaped by longing: for stability, understanding, and the magnetic pull of her classmate, Tegan. Their friendship, marked by both tenderness and turbulence, propels Sissy toward self-discovery while exposing the precariousness of girlhood friendships.
Wetherall’s writing brims with poetic cadence and evocative imagery. Sissy’s voice oscillates between sharp clarity and dreamlike musing, mirroring the fragmented, chaotic nature of adolescence. The story is layered with symbolic transformations, from Sissy’s webbed toes and growing tail to the mythic parallels she draws with mermaids and Eve. These symbols underscore the fragility and inevitability of change, often intertwined with pain, societal expectation, and desire.
Sexuality lies at the heart of Amphibian, exploring the hypersexualization of girls in a world that denies them the safety to navigate their own desires. Sissy’s fear of being labeled or shamed, even as she craves power and connection, captures the dissonance many young girls face. Wetherall deftly unpacks how girls are often taught that their worth is tied to the sexual desire they elicit, pushing them toward dangerous territory in search of agency.
The novel’s darker threads unravel through the presence of Tegan’s sister, Haley, whose world of parties, drugs, and predators exposes Sissy and Tegan to adult dangers too soon. The trauma Sissy witnesses—her complicity in silence, her mother’s neglect, and her friendship’s unraveling—converges in a climax that feels both inevitable and devastating.
Through Amphibian, Wetherall crafts a powerful meditation on girlhood’s contradictions: its beauty and violence, its vulnerability and strength. Sissy’s transformation—both physical and emotional—remains etched in the mind, a reminder of the messy, magical metamorphoses that define growing up.
📖 Recommended For: Fans of lyrical and introspective prose, readers captivated by the turbulence of girlhood friendships, anyone drawn to coming-of-age stories with a touch of magical realism, and admirers of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield or Chlorine by Jade Song.
🔑 Key Themes: The Complexities of Girlhood, Sexuality and Shame, Transformation and Identity, Betrayal and Intimacy, Power Dynamics in Female Relationships.
Content / Trigger Warnings: Mental Illness (minor), Suicide (minor), Fatphobia (minor), Sexual Assault (minor), Sexual Harassment (minor), Sexual Content (minor), Bullying (minor), Child Abuse (minor), Abandonment (minor), Animal Death (severe), Toxic Friendship (moderate), Torture (minor), Animal Cruelty (severe), Violence (minor), Blood (minor), Murder (minor), Alcohol (minor), Drug Use (minor), Adult-Minor Relationship (minor), Kidnapping (minor).
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December 15, 2024A beautifully written slow-burn of a coming-of-age novel, Amphibian is a captivating and, at times, unsettling examination of girlhood, friendships, and obsession. With undertones of magical realism and a late 1990s crime thriller, Wetherall delivers a story that’s in equal measure heartfelt, propulsive, and unnerving. Strong comp for Jade Song’s Chlorine and Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea. Read with a hammer nearby so you can throw something at a wall after the ending.
Highlighted quotes:
It is too dangerous to want a thing there might be hope of having. Better to want faraway hopeless things. Like wings. And fathers. (24)
I don't know how to love or be loved in the right way and there's nobody here to guide me. I don't know what I’ll become when I'm done changing. If I'm not loved in time will I turn into foam on top of the sea? If I'm loved too much will I transform into a tree? Was the missing girl loved in the wrong way, too soon, or too late, or not enough? Was she forced to change against her will? (83)
I imagine losing my virginity. It's abstract, like a maths problem. What do I become once it's lost? A woman? I know my virginity is to be lost to a boy, but does the boy keep it and, if so, what does he do with it afterwards? Do boys collect virginities like shells picked from a beach, displayed in a jar on the mantelpiece, their origins later forgotten? If virginities can be lost, can they also be found? Can they be returned, with a note reading, 'I'm sorry for taking what wasn't mine'? Do boys have virginities? What is lost for them? What do they give in return? (89)
Friendship, I’m learning, is as much about what isn’t said. (107)
I feel my mother's sadness. It turns in a circle inside me like a cat settling down to sleep. Once clockwise. Once anti-clockwise. (154)
There are no deals to be made with the universe, no system of wishes. There is just the fact of our friendship and the fact of our betrayal, and all the murky waters in between. It was through these waters we swam to get here, like our amphibian ancestors emerging from the soupy depths, busy becoming. (300)
Highlighted quotes:
It is too dangerous to want a thing there might be hope of having. Better to want faraway hopeless things. Like wings. And fathers. (24)
I don't know how to love or be loved in the right way and there's nobody here to guide me. I don't know what I’ll become when I'm done changing. If I'm not loved in time will I turn into foam on top of the sea? If I'm loved too much will I transform into a tree? Was the missing girl loved in the wrong way, too soon, or too late, or not enough? Was she forced to change against her will? (83)
I imagine losing my virginity. It's abstract, like a maths problem. What do I become once it's lost? A woman? I know my virginity is to be lost to a boy, but does the boy keep it and, if so, what does he do with it afterwards? Do boys collect virginities like shells picked from a beach, displayed in a jar on the mantelpiece, their origins later forgotten? If virginities can be lost, can they also be found? Can they be returned, with a note reading, 'I'm sorry for taking what wasn't mine'? Do boys have virginities? What is lost for them? What do they give in return? (89)
Friendship, I’m learning, is as much about what isn’t said. (107)
I feel my mother's sadness. It turns in a circle inside me like a cat settling down to sleep. Once clockwise. Once anti-clockwise. (154)
There are no deals to be made with the universe, no system of wishes. There is just the fact of our friendship and the fact of our betrayal, and all the murky waters in between. It was through these waters we swam to get here, like our amphibian ancestors emerging from the soupy depths, busy becoming. (300)
September 13, 2024
"Defiance is key to magic, too."
Amphibian follows the young Sissy as her single mother relocates her to an unfamiliar school at the exact moment when she must undergo puberty and discover what it means to be a young woman in a world crafted by those with opposite experiences. Her connection with the school's gravitational Tegan rapidly becomes the key that unlocks the means with which both girls discover the cruel growth of their femininity in the modern, shame-proclaiming world. The defiance these girls must demonstrate at every turn—against their own beliefs, the others in their lives, the world they've been violently shoved into, and oftentimes one another—is core to both the blessings and curses they conjure.
It's not a story I—a cisgender, straight, adult man—can relate to outside of its commonalities all coming-of-age experiences share, and yet it's one I'll learn from forever. It's frustratingly realistic, as its most beautiful moments come on the sharp, biting heels of the unfairness life brings the contemporary youth, girls particularly.
It's the kind of story literature was made for. The words on the pages are spoilers themselves, for the culmination of its lyrical prose, layered deeply with extended metaphors, is euphoric in the way only masterfully crafted stories can accomplish. The novel is an achievement at both the macro and at the line level, and it reads as beautifully as its tale wrenches the heart.
This must-read, fairytale-esque tale should be taught, as it demands learning of such a specific, and yet blatantly common, story that has a near-infinite wealth of wisdom to impart. For each day I dipped into its pages, the story consumed my thoughts for long after, gnawing at every way I framed the world I experienced outside of it.
Tyler Wetherall, so early in her published career, stakes her claim as a powerhouse of an author whose stories should be told for generations. And even then, I'm not sure it'll do the brilliance of the literature justice.
Amphibian follows the young Sissy as her single mother relocates her to an unfamiliar school at the exact moment when she must undergo puberty and discover what it means to be a young woman in a world crafted by those with opposite experiences. Her connection with the school's gravitational Tegan rapidly becomes the key that unlocks the means with which both girls discover the cruel growth of their femininity in the modern, shame-proclaiming world. The defiance these girls must demonstrate at every turn—against their own beliefs, the others in their lives, the world they've been violently shoved into, and oftentimes one another—is core to both the blessings and curses they conjure.
It's not a story I—a cisgender, straight, adult man—can relate to outside of its commonalities all coming-of-age experiences share, and yet it's one I'll learn from forever. It's frustratingly realistic, as its most beautiful moments come on the sharp, biting heels of the unfairness life brings the contemporary youth, girls particularly.
It's the kind of story literature was made for. The words on the pages are spoilers themselves, for the culmination of its lyrical prose, layered deeply with extended metaphors, is euphoric in the way only masterfully crafted stories can accomplish. The novel is an achievement at both the macro and at the line level, and it reads as beautifully as its tale wrenches the heart.
This must-read, fairytale-esque tale should be taught, as it demands learning of such a specific, and yet blatantly common, story that has a near-infinite wealth of wisdom to impart. For each day I dipped into its pages, the story consumed my thoughts for long after, gnawing at every way I framed the world I experienced outside of it.
Tyler Wetherall, so early in her published career, stakes her claim as a powerhouse of an author whose stories should be told for generations. And even then, I'm not sure it'll do the brilliance of the literature justice.
August 11, 2024
In her acknowledgements at the back of her book,"Amphibian",author Tyler Wetherall refers to the "strange beauty" of her story. While that may not be overly modest it's a fair description of a quite remarkable and affecting story.
On the cusp of puberty Sissy has just moved to the Westcountry with her troubled Mother and started a new school. She stumbles across "top girl" Tegan ,who is showing some boys a rather unusual talent, and is impressed by her no-nonsense dealing with a bullying boy.
Already damaged in different ways they bond and support each other through life's trials while navigating their way through the minefield of growing up as young girls finding their way in life amongst family pressures,predatory males and their changing bodies........sometimes quite startling changes. They don't always get it right and readers will see potential "car crashes" when the girls get themselves into situations through naivety.
There's more to this book than "just a coming of age story" and I'd guess some readers might not like the direction it sometimes takes or where it ends up. Personally I loved it.
On the cusp of puberty Sissy has just moved to the Westcountry with her troubled Mother and started a new school. She stumbles across "top girl" Tegan ,who is showing some boys a rather unusual talent, and is impressed by her no-nonsense dealing with a bullying boy.
Already damaged in different ways they bond and support each other through life's trials while navigating their way through the minefield of growing up as young girls finding their way in life amongst family pressures,predatory males and their changing bodies........sometimes quite startling changes. They don't always get it right and readers will see potential "car crashes" when the girls get themselves into situations through naivety.
There's more to this book than "just a coming of age story" and I'd guess some readers might not like the direction it sometimes takes or where it ends up. Personally I loved it.
September 11, 2024
Girls aren't taught about their own bodies, wants, wishes, or desires. Even as adult women, we don't talk to each other about what happens in our brains as we lie in bed at night. The book's protagonist, Sissy, is coming of age just as that shame response is starting to kick in, and she deals with it through escaping into her still childlike imagination, which gives the book a slight magical realism bent. It also reminds me of the succulent danger of those ridiculously tight-knit female friendships from our early teens, where the term "ride or die" can start feeling literal. We cling onto each other for dear life, looking for answers. I'm not sure if Sissy finds them in the end—but then again, I'm 35, and I still haven't.
January 17, 2025
Stunningly Beautiful. Magical. Devastating. Perfectly paced. Literally everything you're looking for in a book.
Tyler Wetherall's debut novel, "Amphibian" is an expertly crafted exploration of identity, belonging, family, friends and desire. The compelling world she has created quickly lifts off the page and absorbs you, filling you with hopes and fears for her characters that will linger long after the final page.
Stop what your doing. Cancel your plans. Read this book. You wont be disappointed.
Tyler Wetherall's debut novel, "Amphibian" is an expertly crafted exploration of identity, belonging, family, friends and desire. The compelling world she has created quickly lifts off the page and absorbs you, filling you with hopes and fears for her characters that will linger long after the final page.
Stop what your doing. Cancel your plans. Read this book. You wont be disappointed.
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October 22, 2024This book was phenomenal, a visceral unnerving exploration of those in-between years, when you are not yet an adult but on the cusp. Tyler weaves her story through Sissy's girlhood, when her changing body feels alien and she is still submerged in make believe but is trying to figure out the heady mix of desire and shame that is thrust upon young female bodies. The voice is sublime, walking the boundary of knowing and not knowing, I would highly recommend this book - absolutely loved it.
November 6, 2024
I keep going back and forth on this one - I think it’s a very good book, and I don’t think that I like it. That’s a testament to how well written it is, because the story telling is too effective in how it distressed me. It just felt like hit after hit, and I really should not have finished it when I was having a bad day.
The writing is gorgeous and the characters painfully real. Please be gentle with these girls
The writing is gorgeous and the characters painfully real. Please be gentle with these girls
November 22, 2024
Tyler Wetherall’s AMPHIBIAN perfectly captures the inner workings of a teenage girl ready (or so she thinks) to cross over into womanhood. On a vivid journey through the UK countryside, Sissy faces the trials and tribulations typical of her age – friendship ups and downs, puberty, etc. Her thoughts, at points, are so vibrant and relatable I wondered if my childhood diary had been a source for this novel! Wetherall’s sleek sentences will captivate any reader. Pick this book up now!
September 1, 2024
‘I’m learning you have to walk the line between wanting and not wanting. Between being loved and loving too much.’
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Amphibian is part fairytale, part a coming of age story, with a pretty haunting plotline that follows Sissy and Tegan in their journey into becoming ‘proper’ teenagers/young adults. The writing is beautiful, and the themes are intricately interwoven, exploring girlhood, shame, desire, and the perspective of a woman in a society that is not very friendly toward them.
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Sissy and Tegan’s friendship is born out of an act of violence that foreshadows how the story will unfold. Both of their families have a complicated past, and their dynamics are evidence of the intergenerational trauma that leads to tragic consequences repeatedly.
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Amphibian is part fairytale, part a coming of age story, with a pretty haunting plotline that follows Sissy and Tegan in their journey into becoming ‘proper’ teenagers/young adults. The writing is beautiful, and the themes are intricately interwoven, exploring girlhood, shame, desire, and the perspective of a woman in a society that is not very friendly toward them.
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Sissy and Tegan’s friendship is born out of an act of violence that foreshadows how the story will unfold. Both of their families have a complicated past, and their dynamics are evidence of the intergenerational trauma that leads to tragic consequences repeatedly.
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Is this book on your TBR?
November 21, 2024
This is a very moving and beautifully written novel about two girls who form a bond as both of them wrestle with their dysfunctional families and the desires and fear that come with approaching adulthood. I found myself thinking back to being twelve and how confusing and exciting it all was. I hope Tyler Wetherall writes many more books.
November 7, 2024
i have a lot of feelings about this book and i am not sure how to address them. this book made me so uneasy the whole time it was quite successful in catching my attention but at the same time i also did not like it but yet it was so intriguing im not sure how to explain it
January 12, 2025
i have no words
this book is formidable, devastating, and beautiful
I’ve actually had to go back and change all of my 5 star reviews for books because this is now my 5 star benchmark. Everything that came before was a 4 💅🏼
this book is formidable, devastating, and beautiful
I’ve actually had to go back and change all of my 5 star reviews for books because this is now my 5 star benchmark. Everything that came before was a 4 💅🏼
October 13, 2024
A really stunning novel about girlhood, and about how becoming a woman can feel like a strange magic and a curse at the same time. Captivating writing.
October 28, 2024
Amphibian is so uniquely told and every sentence beautifully written. You are quickly pulled into the world of Sissy and Tegan and captivated by every chapter throughout. This is a must read!
October 28, 2024
favorite book i've read this year
November 28, 2024
I was shocked to find that this book has very few reviews! This was a hidden gem at the bookstore. Beautifully written.
December 12, 2024
Currently only 64 ratings?! This book deserves more recognition! It’s heartbreaking, but painfully beautiful at the same time.
December 19, 2024
I feel so grateful to have read this book. It’s spellbinding. It’s complete magic. Unreal.
October 23, 2024
Terrific novel about two pubescent girls finding out about womanhood together, but in very different ways. Amphibian is not like any other "coming of age" story. Prepare for surprises--I had to reread several passages to confirm what I just read. I highly recommend.
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