Despite all the stories being essentially variations on a single theme, they're well-written, engaging, and each one is very unique. I loved this as aDespite all the stories being essentially variations on a single theme, they're well-written, engaging, and each one is very unique. I loved this as an exploration of how gender variant characters can exist within the fantasy mold, but also as simply a hopeful, pleasant read wherein said characters can also have happy endings.
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Despite all the stories being essentially variations on a single theme, they're well-written, engaging, and each one is very unique. I loved this as an exploration of how gender variant characters can exist within the fantasy mold, but also as simply a hopeful, pleasant read wherein said characters can also have happy endings....more
tbqh I was hoping for more "modern techno-pagan" and less "Seventeen magazine"tbqh I was hoping for more "modern techno-pagan" and less "Seventeen magazine"...more
kind of formulaic plot with heavily-telegraphed twists and i didn't love the main character, but interesting world, well-written.kind of formulaic plot with heavily-telegraphed twists and i didn't love the main character, but interesting world, well-written....more
Yeahhh I dunno, I was tense for this entire book. It's probably not the book's fault. I know it was trying to be educational on what it's like to be aYeahhh I dunno, I was tense for this entire book. It's probably not the book's fault. I know it was trying to be educational on what it's like to be autistic but the style was kind of grating. The way it ended kind of bothered me. Also CW it does start out with the murder of a pet and the person responsible faces no consequences....more
A delight and a devastation from the first word to the last. Best time travel romance since The Time Traveler's Wife.A delight and a devastation from the first word to the last. Best time travel romance since The Time Traveler's Wife....more
I don't know why I've read two post-apocalyptic novels set from the point-of-view of a crow in the past couple years but they were both amazing so I'mI don't know why I've read two post-apocalyptic novels set from the point-of-view of a crow in the past couple years but they were both amazing so I'm not complaining, just, this is an oddly specific genre. This is like Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr but by way of Station Eleven. Starts out a little gruesome, but like Station Eleven it's more of an elegy than a horror novel -- oddly hopeful, at times funny, and with some surprisingly deep things to say about cross-cultural identity and the meaning of life and our (humanity's) relationship to the natural world....more
I dunno felt like it kind of petered out but it wasn't like actively bad or anything.I dunno felt like it kind of petered out but it wasn't like actively bad or anything....more
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