You know what I really enjoyed this novel! This is such a creative perspective as a chameleon and honestly very cute imagining it too. Also I couldn’t stop thinking about the song ‘Karma Chameleon’, hence the title of this blog – it just fits so well.
Anyways, let’s jump into it! Starting with the narrator, he’s a gecko who has made himself comfortable in a mans home by the name of Felix Ventura/Albino. Like I mentioned before I love that we get to observe Felix’s life through the eyes of a gecko, just in the corner of the room, watching, living life through someone else. At first I was a bit confused thinking, is the chameleon a shape shifter? why can he laugh and form thoughts but makes sense that he is a human man reincarnated into a lizard form. Honestly, that’s so cool to me – I want to believe that reincarnation into other life forms is a thing, wouldn’t it be so cool to be an animal? or maybe not, depends which one LOL. Off-topic! but continuing on, learning about the narrators previous life was super cool too, I feel like normally (or from what ive read) authors in reincarnation themes try not to give their character too much or even remember their past lives because it messes up with the importance of this new one. His life was sad. I think the guy killed himself? my mind is kinda hazy but from this quote I presume it implies that. “I turned out the light.I put the pistol to my head, and I fell asleep.”. He didn’t have much attachment to his parents either, even saying he felt worse when his dog died than his dad?? honourable mention is this quote too: “Whoever finds this bottle, please write to me. No one ever wrote to me.” – Like oh!! that is depressing (also the only thing he did aside from like 2 other things for fun)
One thing I really enjoyed about this book was the philosophy it included and pretty sentences I wanted to write down hehe – I took a lot of quotes but only 2 could make it.
“The worst of sins is not to fall in love” – I think i’ve seen this before, but it’s just really simple and meaningful.
“Where there is light, there are shadows too.” – this was said after Felix met Angela and was describing her very highly, which is met with wise chameleon advice. I really enjoy this statement, it really is true, you can’t always be blinded by the light in people for in that shine there is also the shadows and secrets that it casts.
That’s all from me, bye-bye!
Q: If you could reincarnate as an animal, what would it be?