Brilliant plot, impeccable twist. I really loved the characterisation too. 5 stars, favourite of the year.

This book had such potential and sounded like it was right up my alley, I do feel that this needed better execution. I did enjoy this but not as much as I had anticipated going into it.

Flock To Your Poison while a good starting point is yet to reach its full bookish potential. Having finished it I thought that it might be the second in a set of three, it didn’t give enough backstory and surely it couldn’t end there….but it did. This is the only book by Ellan and hopefully not the last, for the storylines sake. It almost read like a super compacted, basic version of The Illuminae Files. The five philosophers unlocked their full potential, they but do they really know what they’re doing. It takes a lot of death for the truth to come out...they don't have a clue. Will fixing the problem make people forget or is it too late?

With an imperceptible blink of the eyes, I found myself in the year 2346. Time goes by fast when you're having fun. Understandably, due to the nature of the subject, the narrative was seeded with vague passages throughout the storyline; the author was invested in an area that we know entirely, nothing about.

The Sight Institute rests in the middle of the Pacific Ocean within the modern city of Madilune; its appearance was the result of the famous 2118 earthquake that produced a great reef.

The institute's ultimate goal was to tap into the unused portion of the human mind; it's been argued, there is so much of it that has yet been explored. Exploiting the mind's potential was there for the taking. For the institute, there remained so much to learn and share.

Seravina Giovanotti served as leader of the Institute. She had been the driving force behind the latest advancements into the untapped field of mental telepathy. The overall goal was to make the world a better place to live in. All that was missing was a chorus of Kumbaya.

Something terrible had gone wrong. Thousands of test subjects had passed into a coma. No one had seen this coming. It took the Institute by surprise. Unfortunately, no one knew how to fix this insurmountable outcome. Actually, in the first place, they didn't even have a firm understanding of what they were doing. Literally, they were tasked to correct a life-altering change that they knew nothing about. Right off the bat, it was a challenging storyline.

This novel proposed a future exploration into an area of the human mind that had been sought after for many millennia. We've all heard that only a very small portion of our brain is used for daily tasks. Might we someday find a way to break through the barrier and unlock its full potential? We'll have to wait and see.

I offer my thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

In a strange, distant future, where physics and alchemists both exist, The Sight Institute launches the new update of its invention. But something goes wrong: thousands of people fall into a coma, and the chief researcher has to find out what is going wrong as soon as possible.

Flock To Your Poison had a very interesting concept. The plot is unique, and it really makes the reader wonder what is going on from page one. There was a good attempt at creating a dystopia.

However, at around 80 pages in length, it has the volume of a novella instead of a novel. Given that the story has so many information packed in it, it probably should have a different structure. There is too much information, and too many different narrative styles crammed in one story. I understand that the author tried to create something unique, but in the process they made the book much more confusing than it needed to be.

This was definitely one of the cases where the concept was very good, but they execution needed more work.

Well, this one was…different. Actually it was a literal equivalent of meeting a gorgeous person, nicely dressed, great sounding name even…and then getting into conversation with them and realizing they might be way, way out there. So is this book, great cover, great title, but WTF was that, really. I suppose genre wise it would be the New Weird, it was certainly weird enough. Some sort of mixture of futuristic technology and alchemy with complex plotting and its own linguistic quirks. It had a lot of good elements, but much like with alchemy sometimes the mix works, sometimes it doesn’t. This one didn’t work for me at all. It was kind of sort of conceptually intriguing enough, but reading it, the brain just glazes over and it doesn’t seem worth it to take the time to figure out all of the whathtef*ckery. It might very well be an acquired taste sort of thing, the writing was decent enough, but the nicest thing that maybe I can say about it is that it was almost 60 minutes of a very peculiar sort of confusion. Thanks Netgalley.