Feral Bloom
by HM Read
Why we picked it
A strong pick for readers who like literary science fiction with haunting worldbuilding and high-stakes ideas. It promises a stark, thought-provoking story where memory, identity, and survival collide.
About this book
HM Read’s Feral Bloom is a literary post-collapse science fiction novel set after a ruinous force called the Bloom has consumed civilization. The cities are gone, reduced to rot, and those still alive move across the water, clinging to what remains in a world stripped of certainty.
In this shattered future, memory is dangerous, thought itself wears people down, and reading has become a rare, unsettling gift. Braska is driven to seek what came before, while Temlyn is bound to protect the order that exists now. As their paths become entwined, they move through a landscape where trust feels like a form of insanity and the truth of human survival is buried beneath a near-total forgetting. To learn what destroyed the world, they may have to surrender what makes them human.
The vibe
Post-collapse mysteryLiterary sci-fiMemory and forgettingRuined worldTrust under strain
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Details
- Author
- HM Read
- Genre
- Fiction
- Published
- 2026
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Pages
- 283
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- ISBN
- 9798276193977
