Idk what people are on about, this is BRILLIANT. --- The Thick and the Lean is, at its core, an examination of our relationship with healthy eating and Idk what people are on about, this is BRILLIANT. --- The Thick and the Lean is, at its core, an examination of our relationship with healthy eating and thinness through the lens of a society where sex is a casual action you can have in public and at the same time the dominant religion considers food and eating deeply sinful and taboo. It’s slow and thoughtful and absolutely brilliant, and I don’t know where the mixed reception is coming from. I absolutely loved it, and it’s definitely going to be one of my top reads of 2024.
The mindset of equating food and pleasure with sin is taken to extremes in the corporate- and religion-controlled, culty town of Seagate where one of the protagonists, Beatrice, grew up. Everyone is given appetite suppressants and nutritional supplements, weight is closely and publicly monitored, hunger is the absolute moral failing and fatness is worse. Nevertheless she craves food – real, flavourful food. As the community grows increasingly fervent and her secret passion for cooking gets harder and harder to pursue, she is forced to make a decision – conform and give up on her dreams for good, or run away and leave everyone she has ever known.
The other POV is Reiko, an artist and computer science student. Coming from a poor family, she dreams of a better life, and when they randomly take away her scholarship, making her as good as expelled, she decides to make her way by using her knowledge of technology to steal from the rich. Since she is also a member of the Free-Wah ethnic minority who eat openly, her story is less about food (though of course it plays a part, if nothing else by providing another contrast to Flesh Martyrdom) and more centered on capitalism, exploitation, the way even the most disadvantaged can unintentionally perpetuate oppressive systems when they rise to the top, and always striving for something better even at the cost of your soul. And it’s a lot more nuanced and less heavy-handed than my description made it sound. It’s not preachy, it’s very story-forward as you read it, but the themes are undeniably there.
The two perspectives only converge briefly near the end and are barely related aside from both characters stumbling upon the same forbidden book and sharing the same setting and themes. An unconventional choice, and on the first read I definitely preferred Beatrice to Reiko, but it’s also one of these things where the more I think about it, the more it makes sense and the more I appreciate what the author is doing (rare, since usually overthinking and picking a book apart in the process of reviewing leads to lowering the execution rating). Thematically, they complement each other well.
Like any good dystopia, The Thick and the Lean is not about predicting the future, but holding a mirror up to today’s society. Flesh Martyrdom is simply diet culture taken to its logical extreme, the casualness of sex in part a subversion of holding up sex as sacred yet taboo, and part an exaggeration of allonormativity. Their society might be queernormative in the way of not caring what gender someone prefers to have sex with, yes, and sex-favourable to the extreme, all well and good, but it’s made very clear that asexual people and people who don’t have “enough” sex are still treated like shit.
It’s not just food and sex thematically, either – corporate greed, religion, classism, racism and the way marginalised artists are reduced to a single aspect of their identity, it’s all intertwined and there’s little Porter doesn’t touch upon. I like to see an author who actually thinks their premise through, while at the same time not forgetting about the characters and plot. The Thick and the Lean never feels clumsy or forced in the way it juggles all these topics, just thorough. It’s all done skillfully, always compelling and extremely readable. If the premise sounds interesting to you, I can’t recommend it enough – just mind the content warnings!
Enjoyment: 5/5 Execution: 5/5
Recommended to: anyone looking for an interesting, unique, thoughtful dystopia Not recommended to: those who don’t like a lot of on-page sex
Content warnings: disordered eating, on-page sexual violence, also the whole “living in a cult” thing
After several months of on and off reading, I finally managed to finish, and god damn did it deliver the promise of its premise. Absolutely brilliant.After several months of on and off reading, I finally managed to finish, and god damn did it deliver the promise of its premise. Absolutely brilliant. Plucky rebels, the protagonist’s slow deradicalization arc, it had my attention from the start. Just because it took me several months, it doesn’t mean it’s the book’s fault. Starting it just as I started a new job was simply ridiculously bad timing.
Winged Zemolai is a military enforcer in an increasingly fascist city of Radezhda, which her warrior sect is ruling with an iron fist. After her act of mercy to a secret devotee of another god is discovered, she abruptly falls from grace, losing her wings, her position, her leader’s good graces, and barely escaping with her life. But while she’s dying from her injuries and the withdrawal from the drug that kept her mechanical wings working, she is discovered by a group of young, hopeful revolutionaries, who let her recover in hope she might be useful to their cause.
As always, I loved following a protagonist who’s over 40, with all the aches and pains and jaded cynicism that come with it. Zemolai is by no means sympathetic, at the start she’s a hidebound cop through and through, guided only by her blind faith in her god and her leader, but she’s interesting and well written and I liked how slowly (oh so very slowly and reluctantly) she starts to admit that maybe young revolutionaries have a point. It’s not a magical switch. Even at the end she’s still a firm believer in order. But there is a change in her faith, questioning, maybe even redemption.
This is alternated with chapters following her from childhood, explaining how she became Winged Zemolai. Radicalization, as opposed to the present-day deradicalization, from her childhood dreams of flying, to leaving the scholar sect she grew up in to enter the warrior school and attracting the attention of an ambitious but profoundly abusive mentor, and all the atrocities that followed. This dual structure, the pacing, I have no complaints.
The worldbuilding is also fun. It’s a very narrowly defined setting, just one isolated city, and you’re never quite sure if it’s sci-fi or fantasy or maybe both (probably both). The gods are both real and present, yet not, since they’re asleep in their realms and it’s never clear what their motivations are or if they’re really gods at all. I liked the ambiguity of it. I should probably also say that mecha warriors aren’t really people piloting giant machines (a plus for me, since I don’t particularly like that), but simply enhanced humans. With cool mechanical wings that plug into their backs.
As with Zemolai’s potential redemption, the ending is similarly open-yet-hopeful for Radezhda itself. In both cases, they might have been steered towards a better path, but there is clearly a lot more work to be done. Nothing is solved, there is simply a chance for a new beginning and a possibility of a better future. And the way the last chapter is written is simply perfect.
Highly recommended! And if you need more convincing: it’s a standalone and not particularly long at that ...more
Tchaikovsky's books have, so far, been extremely hit and miss for me. This one is sadly once again alThanks to the publisher for the ARC of this book.
Tchaikovsky's books have, so far, been extremely hit and miss for me. This one is sadly once again almost entirely a miss.
It seemed like an interesting concept, another spin on the good old portal fantasy tropes. But the Britishness of it all got on my nerves, the disgraced TV presenter protagonist was a bit of a twat, especially in the pre-portal beginning (and boy does it take AGES to get anywhere), and the sheer downplayed cynicism of it all was incredibly exhausting. Too much cynicism for me, too much subversion, too much meta. Portal fantasy, but give it a sprinkle of horror and take all the wonder out of it and have it take place just before and during the pandemic. I'll give it that, the concept was interesting and it was not too badly done, if you're the kind of reader who likes that. As it turns out, I just found it tiresome and unpleasant.
Thanks to the publisher (Tor) for the ARC of this book.
Well, this was fun! I confess: I still haven’t read Winter's Orbit, but something about descripThanks to the publisher (Tor) for the ARC of this book.
Well, this was fun! I confess: I still haven’t read Winter's Orbit, but something about description of Ocean’s Echo intrigued me enough to request it. And I was right. Sometimes all you need is some light, queernorm sci-fi. Even though Ocean’s Echo has its flaws, it simply clicked for me.
Tennal is a walking disaster of a person. He also happens to be a mind-reader. When his legislator aunt gets tired of him, he gets forcefully conscripted into the military and ordered to sync with an architect (mind controller). But Sunit, a promising officer who accepted a sketchy promotion unaware of what it contains, doesn’t want to sync with someone who does not consent. So they fake it and start planning for escape. Of course, they accidentally get tangled up into something much bigger.
Though this is, in theory, military sci-fi, the focus is very narrow and firmly on the characters. I loved what a chaotic disaster Tennal was. Charming asshole characters can be very hit or miss for me, but here it clicked. Sunit, on the other hand, is firmly Lawful Good but with a delightful malicious compliance streak. The dynamic worked for me quite well and made the book a breeze to read.
It’s not perfect. The worldbuilding felt very messy and barely sketched out and the plot lost itself a little towards the end (I found one of the character decisions particularly idiotic). But at the same time, none of it mattered or affected my enjoyment. It was fast and enjoyable and very easy to read in large chunks.
If you need a quick read, this is a great choice.
Enjoyment: 4/5 Execution: 3/5
Recommended to: anyone looking for light, romance-y sci-fi and queernorm worlds, fans of walking disaster characters, those who prefer low-heat romance Not recommended to: worldbuilding-focused readers, fans of military sci-fi
Oh, this was delightful. Same batshit dystopia world as The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (if in Chittagong instead of Kathmandu), but a plot thaOh, this was delightful. Same batshit dystopia world as The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (if in Chittagong instead of Kathmandu), but a plot that's less wild and more character-focused and introspective. I liked it. Kundo, a once-famous artist, sets off to find out what happened to his disappeared wife and makes a lot of quirky new friends along the way. When the plot started going in the direction of immersive games (which Kundo's wife liked) and hacking, I was afraid my interest would drop off, but it didn't, which is really a testament to Hossain's skill as a writer. The pacing, the characters, the amount of plot, the ending, everything is just as it should be, and I'm looking forward to more.
Since the setting and the main characters are different, the novellas can be read in any order.
DNF 29% - I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to try this one. The blurb did make it sound like there might be some hurt/comfort hidden in tDNF 29% - I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to try this one. The blurb did make it sound like there might be some hurt/comfort hidden in there, but there wasn't much, the love interest was horribly stereotypical, the worldbuilding was thin and made no sense, and overall it was just...very very tropey, poorly written YA. When the prince randomly saved her ass because he found her attractive, I lost my patience. Nope. The dedication to Sarah J. Maas should have been enough warning. At least I tried it via Overdrive......more
This was, I confess, a complete impulse read. I was idly browsing cheap ebooks and – hey, I’ve heard of this before. And it looks to be barely longer This was, I confess, a complete impulse read. I was idly browsing cheap ebooks and – hey, I’ve heard of this before. And it looks to be barely longer than a novella, too! Checking the preview, the strangeness of it all was incredibly compelling. I had to go back to it at the earliest possible opportunity.
Amatka is a strange book set in an even stranger, dystopian world. Every object has to be periodically re-inscribed with its name or it dissolves. In addition, people are under strict control to obey rules and any deviance or wanting the society to be different is horrifyingly punished. It makes for a creepy, unsettling combination (I was reading it before going to bed. This was…a bad decision.).
Vanja, our protagonist, is an information assistant, sent to the cold, distant colony of Amatka to see what kind of hygiene products the people there might need. After falling in love with her housemate Nina, she decides to stay, and along with her, we slowly discover why things are as they are.
The atmosphere of the book is gray and depressing and mastefully done. You can feel a sense of wrongness that intensifies with each new revelation, both about why the objects have to be marked and how the society functions. I haven’t seen many people label this book as horror, but I’m highly tempted to classify it as such regardless. It’s true that the characterisation is bland, but I thought that was part of the point – having a MC who is, in a way, completely alienated both from her world and herself mirrored the oppressive, eerie atmosphere well. Also, I have to say I always love it when a book includes bureaucracy and this one has bureaucracy aplenty.
The only thing I didn’t like was the ending, which was very much of the unsatisfying, literary type. Once again it’s an ending where rationally, I can see it make perfect sense, but emotionally, I was far from satisfied. Still, if weird, creepy dystopias are your thing, this is the book for you.
Bitter is a student at the Eucalyptus art school. In and out of foster homes since she was very young, she doesn’t want to be part of any revolution –Bitter is a student at the Eucalyptus art school. In and out of foster homes since she was very young, she doesn’t want to be part of any revolution – she just wants to be safe and make art. But between her revolutionary friends and her ability to make paintings come to life, she may not have much of a choice.
While Pet felt almost middle grade in tone despite some heavy themes, Bitter feels solidly YA, which suited me much better. It’s still not especially subtle, intentionally so, but there was more nuance later on than I expected at the beginning. And as in Phoenix Extravagant, I liked that the protagonist was reluctant, not jumping at the call right at the start. It feels more relatable. There is also much to think about and discuss (especially about justice) in there, making Bitter ideal for a bookclub – especially since it’s short and reading the previous book is not at all required.
ARC provided by the publisher (Stelliform Press) in exchange for an honest review.
Now this was a breath of fresh air. Barely over novella length and sARC provided by the publisher (Stelliform Press) in exchange for an honest review.
Now this was a breath of fresh air. Barely over novella length and set in near future Beijing plagued by pollution where water is strictly rationed, it’s at the same time deeply melancholic, sweet, and kind. I loved it. I requested this more or less on a whim after Christine recommended it to me and I have no regrets.
(Also, if you need any more convincing, there are dragons and it’s gay.)
Kai spends most of his time rescuing and caring for abandoned dragons. He has also recently been diagnosed with shaolong or “burnt lung,” a terminal somewhat tuberculosis-like illness suspected to have been brought on by pollution. Eli has come to Beijing from America for the sake of medical research, but also because of his Chinese grandma who died of shaolong some time ago.
It’s a fairly quiet, slice of life kind of story, mostly focused on the two main characters interacting, their partnership and romance, the conflict between their personalities. Kai is fiercely independent to the point of self-destructiveness – his reaction to his diagnosis was to cut himself off from his family and his friends because he couldn’t face their pity. Eli only wants to help. It can be intensely frustrating to read, but I didn’t mind much. It’s a fascinating character study.
The worldbuilding is different than I’m used to – I don’t read climate fiction, as I find it too depressing in most cases, but combined with a very calm plot like this, it worked well. (I wish this book was around last year when Climate was one of the r/fantasy Bingo squares!) Apart from climate issues and dealing with terminal illness, the book also briefly touches upon the racism Eli faces for being mixed race, both in China and at home. The heavy themes are balanced by overall kindness of the characters and people doing their best when faced with tough circumstances. I also liked the many, many types of (Eastern) dragons.
The ending is of the open, literary type, with not much getting resolved – rationally, I do understand that it’s very fitting for this type of story, but emotionally I wanted a little more. Still, it’s a book I would absolutely recommend.
Enjoyment: 4/5 Execution: 4.5/5
Recommended to: those who like climate SFF, slice of life, dragons, or character studies Not recommended to: those who dislike open, mostly unresolved endings and realistically frustrating characters
Another good installment in the Terra Ignota series, with plenty of twists and politics and an ending to make you scream - but if you came that far, yAnother good installment in the Terra Ignota series, with plenty of twists and politics and an ending to make you scream - but if you came that far, you know what to expect by now. There's not much to say about a third book in a series that does its job. One star off because I felt the plot as a whole still didn't move all that much, but as a whole, the series very much ranks among my favourites.
Seven Surrenders is sort of the other half to Too Like the Lightning, finishing the set-up for the second half of the series and tying up some loose eSeven Surrenders is sort of the other half to Too Like the Lightning, finishing the set-up for the second half of the series and tying up some loose ends from the first book while opening up much larger possibilities. If I had to choose one phrase to describe this series, it would be “over the top.” The narrative style, the number of plot twists, not shying away from being provocative when it comes to gender or religion, nothing is done by halves and everything is dialled up to 11.
Since a lot of Seven Surrenders feels like the calm before the storm before the bad thing you know is going to happen finally happens and since there is much more of jumping around the Hives than there is of Mycroft, I didn’t like it quite as much as Too Like the Lightning, but it was still one hell of a wild ride. Once again, the goodreads progress updates involved a lot of incoherent swearing, and once again, I needed a while to process the ending.
This was the only novella in this year's batch of Hugo nominees I haven't read yet. I wasn't too sure of it in the first half, I'll admit. I'm not verThis was the only novella in this year's batch of Hugo nominees I haven't read yet. I wasn't too sure of it in the first half, I'll admit. I'm not very fond of whimsical writing styles and the protagonist came off as if she was twelve, not nineteen. But slowly and surely it grew on me and the second half has a few moments that are quite heartfelt. It's about living in the present and making the best of what you have, even if it's just a literal pile of trash and humanity is barely hanging on because we, the fuckwits we are, fucked it all up. Either way, when it comes to recent existentialist novellas I like it much more than Monk & Robot.
I can't say I'm able to produce a detailed review it deserves since I read it in bits and pieces over the course of a little more than a year, but it'I can't say I'm able to produce a detailed review it deserves since I read it in bits and pieces over the course of a little more than a year, but it's a worthy sequel to The Bone Ships. There is a lot going on in an almost episodic style, and plenty of revelations, so it was an engaging enough read - but it still very much is a middle book, setting up for the finale. Looking forward to finishing the series!
This felt like a book I didn't know I needed at the time. Set in a postapocalyptic, dystopian, western-like America, it follows Esther as she escapes This felt like a book I didn't know I needed at the time. Set in a postapocalyptic, dystopian, western-like America, it follows Esther as she escapes an arranged marriage and sets off to join the Librarians - a group composed of several women and one non-binary person, who distribute propaganda materials. Well, allegedly. Along the way she has to face some a lot of uncomfortable truths, about what is really going on with the world, what the Librarians do, just how deep her brainwashing (for the lack of a better word) goes...but she also comes to terms with her own identity and finds a new family of sorts.
The pacing in this one was excellent for a novella, too. It did not feel rushed, there was just enough story for the length. The only complaint I have is that the worldbuilding broke my suspension of disbelief at a couple points, but nothing major. Would read more set in this world (and I normally hate dystopias!).
All in all, recommended!
Enjoyment: 4.5/5 Execution: 4/5
Recommended to: those looking for queer characters and stories with the flavour and atmosphere of a western minus the racism and sexism (well, the setting is sexist, but the story is not)
After I've been unwilling to pick it back up for a month or two, I decided to call it a DNF at 60%.
If not for the r/Fantasy Bingo and the Second ChancAfter I've been unwilling to pick it back up for a month or two, I decided to call it a DNF at 60%.
If not for the r/Fantasy Bingo and the Second Chance square, I would have never picked it up. I hated the second book (fucking Annalise) and unsurprisingly, I hated this one as well. It's simply not a good fit for me. I know Nathan is damaged from what he's been through, but it's so frustrating to read about a protagonist who keeps fucking up and making seemingly wrong choices and snapping at everyone over and over and over. Realistic, perhaps. Enjoyable, fuck no.
And after spoiling myself on the ending and realising it'd make me chock the book through the nearest window (view spoiler)[bury your gays, seriously? (hide spoiler)] I have no wish to finish it properly....more
I volunteered to be a bookclub leader, read the book, led the discussions, then forgot to write a review. Typical. So it’s getting a smol one much latI volunteered to be a bookclub leader, read the book, led the discussions, then forgot to write a review. Typical. So it’s getting a smol one much later instead.
I was hesitant because of how bleak the premise seemed, but despite the dystopia of a generation slave ship and various horrors that went on, it read faster than I expected. The characters were excellent too – I appreciated the portrayal of autism in particular – and I loved how it tackled race and gender.
What I didn’t like as much was that the worldbuilding was full of holes. So many things weren’t given any explanation – how did Matilda come to be organised like a slave ship, for example? That along with wildly uneven pacing (slow for most of the book, then a lightning-fast ending), lack of closure, and unrepetantly abusive characters who were constantly forgiven made for a rather mixed overall impression.
Wow. I don't even know how to approach reviewing this. It's an exploration of "us vs. them" mentality through a SFF lens and, while well-written, in nWow. I don't even know how to approach reviewing this. It's an exploration of "us vs. them" mentality through a SFF lens and, while well-written, in no way, a pleasant read. I could only read it a few pages at a time before I had to put it down again. The petty, everyday evil, the worst aspects of humanity laid bare. It was almost too much. But. It felt powerful and important and viscerally realistic in its own brutally unflinching way. Necessary.
He learned what he was, what they were, and that monsters and men were not meant to exist in the same world. If your own mother hates you and drives you away, why should total strangers love you? From the beginning, the masters understood this fundamental truth. They created separate worlds, one for themselves, another for monsters. The system would not end when the mutagenic reached adulthood. The children would grow up to become free folk living in an invisible cage, with no rights or opportunities. Which meant no real freedom at all.
The basic premise is that a sexually-transmitted disease caused a generation of children to be born with pretty significant mutations. Abortion, safe sex education, discussions on rape, medical testing have become a necessity. The plague children have mostly been taken away at birth and shut into Homes, institutions where the employees are mostly ex-cons and other sorts of desperate people that shouldn't be let near children. They are used for slave labour on farms. As the children become teenagers, they start developing superpowers and tensions are rising.
Aside from that, the society still deals with the sort of racism and sexism that was common in the rural South in the '80s and generally feels faithful to the setting. The prose is simple, colloquial, but the Southern accent works great for immersion. It's feels closer, more powerful than if it'd be written in a more poetic style.
The characters are a mix - we get insight into the heads of everyone from naïve, idealistic Dog who wants to believe everyone is good, his much more cynical friend Brain planning for a revolution, Amy who is secretly a plague kid but keeps it quiet and hates them because all she wants is a normal life, kind-hearted Sally, daughter of the farmer at whose farm the kids work, two men who prey on young girls, the town sheriff preoccupied with his reelection...and many, many more.
We get into the head of the idealists, the bigots, the plague kids themselves. We get to see exactly how they think, what drives them to do the things they do and it's not always pretty. That aspect is fairly nuanced and generally executed incredibly well. The problem with concept-focused books is that they often focus so hard on the theme and the message they want to get across that the plot feels contrived and the characters more like chess pieces on a board that the author moves to get to their conclusion or mouthpieces for viewpoints the author wants to examine. Not so here.
The worst thing about the book is that the atrocities happening aren't contrived or especially exaggerated. They're all things that have, or could have happened. The characters could easily be our friends, our neighbours, our family members. All believing they are decent people, the heroes of their own story. And this makes it a thousand times scarier than any dark lord. Shutting people who are different away into institutions that nobody wanted near them? Happened. Prejudice, dehumanisation, fear, wrongful conviction because it's easier to believe it was one of them who did it than your neighbour...there are rays of hope underpinning the horror, but the overall impression is more than a little bleak.
As I said, I did not enjoy reading it. It was painful, hard-hitting, and unflinching. And sometimes, that's precisely what's necessary. It didn't feel gratitious or preachy. Its effectiveness lies exactly in its lack of window dressing. Not a favourite, but highly recommended.
Enjoyment: 2.5/5 Execution: 5/5
Recommended to: people with a strong stomach, emotional masochists, those looking for on-point social commentary, fans of small-scale stories Not recommended to: anyone looking for an enjoyable read, also content warning: abuse, graphic rape, probably a lot of other things too
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher (Crown) on Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
(also, this is my first ARC)
A lovechild of SandI received an ARC of this book from the publisher (Crown) on Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
(also, this is my first ARC)
A lovechild of Sanderson, Lynch, and Gladstone as I have heard it described would be an apt comparison indeed.
What a fucking book. This one will make it big, mark my words. It has something for everyone. Fans of high-paced, action fantasy? Check. Those looking for likable characters? Check. Magic system enthusiasts, those who want (mild) social critique, those looking for heist books, female characters with agency (who are not all fighters!)…there’s so much to love.
Sancia is a thief with some mysterious abilities. Living in the lawless area between the merchant house enclaves (or campos), she makes her living by stealing various objects…until one day, after what was supposed to be a particularily expensive job, curiosity gets the better of her and things get complicated.
And holy mother of fuck, what a ride it is. It’s intense and fast-paced from start to end, and I was swearing like a sailor with a broken leg. I am not used to such a pace. It’s full of twists and turns and surprises and things with massive implications. And the ending. Tying up the storyline nicely, yet leaving enough open for the sequels. And, again, intense, even moreso than the rest of the book.
The characters are likable enough. Sancia’s stoic and pragmatic and capable and somewhat snarky, but not unrealistically so. She, Orso (the cranky old fart he is), and Clef were my favourites. Berenice as well. Only Gregor and the final villain fell a bit flat to me. And the romantic subplot, while very minimal, was pretty damn cute (and casually LGBTQ+ <3).
(bonus: fanart of Sancia I drew)
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The setting’s a dystopian mix of unrestricted capitalism taken to a logical extreme with a dash of colonialism, in dire need of a revolution. Unless you live in the walled parts of the city owned by corporations (or Foundries), you’re screwed. There are no laws, almost no magitech amenities people inside enjoy, not much of a living to make.
Scriving is pretty much magical programming. As a compsci student, I appreciated the attention given to how disastrous a bug could be when dealing with real objects, as well as the magical equivalent of hacking, but it could get somewhat infodumpy at points. The basic concept of how it works in particular was repeated very, very often at the start, and I generally prefer vaguer magic, but it was well done regardless.
I haven’t read any books by Robert Jackson Benett before, but now I certainly will.
Enjoyment: 4/5 Execution: 4.5/5
Recommended to: fans of systemic magic, those looking for thief protagonists, those who like a bit more action in their books…pretty much everyone, really? Not recommended to: people looking for slower stories, those who strongly prefer vague magic
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