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I should also add though, that I read one other romantasy (I think it could be considered as such) book called The Everlasting by Alix Harrow. That book was fantastic and one of the best books I read in the past year. It also just won the Locus awar…
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It's become very apparant to me in the past couple months that these cozy type books where the conflict is basically sucked right out of the stories because you know everything will essentially work out in the end, just do not work for me. Maybe I a…
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The characters felt like products of a world that had already determined for them who they were going to be and how they would behave. I didn't feel like they really had much agency, and it left me feeling very unemotional and disconnected from them.
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When I compare this to the Becky Chambers book that I read this month, the "cozy" nature of it seems to try and lean less into some of the post-scarcity thinking, and more into just pure escapism. I didn't get the sense that it was trying …
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Personally I really didn't like this book, except as entertainment. I would read certain passages to my wife and there were times where we nearly had tears laughing so hard at it. I didn't feel like the stakes meant anything, the characters felt lik…
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I've read it but would definitely read it again. I quite like it.
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Should be starting it tomorrow.
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This book has landed in the same pile as Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall which I also thought was a confusing mess and yet had people raving about it being one of their favourite books. I think I have come to terms that books that have high mental l…
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@Apocryphal you nailed it. I didn't realise how big of a frustration (or why I guess) that was until you pinpointed it. A real lack of internal consistency in that regards makes it difficult to feel like one can become immersed in the world. I read…
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I can only speak for myself, but even though I finished it I never once felt like the story got tied up into something that was coherent. The big reveal should have been one of those "Aha!" moments as the structure of the book had me think…
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I thought it was pretty visceral in many ways, which I often don't mind. However, the density of the prose mixed in with the weirdness of the concepts just made it such a slog. @RichardAbbott you described it well. Exhausting to read.
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I don't mind being dropped into the middle of a book and then having to work out what is going on, but the entire plot felt like I was being repeatedly dropped into confusion. There were moments where I thought I kind of knew where things were heade…
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In a confusing book of weirdness, I thought the characters were one of the parts that worked for me - at least relative to other parts. There were certainly some characters that I couldn't figure out but in general I thought many of them had some in…
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I'm down for it as well.
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(Quote) I was convinced to read one last year that turned out to be an excellent read, but I suspect there is a lot of variance in this sub genre (though perhaps that is true across the board!)
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Another thought about this book while I was reading it is that it is sort of like getting a glimpse into the inside of the creepy groups in post-apocalyptic tales that the protagonists usually run into. The cannibals, the cultists, the slavers - but…
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I deifnitely couldn't go down the rabbit hole as deep as this book did, but a situation with a small group living on the margins is a decent plot hook.
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I felt the same way @Apocryphal. Normally this would lead me to DNF a book like this but I was somehow still strangely attracted to the way she wrote. The rambling prose was difficult but it also seemed to add to the chaotic and meandering world tha…
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I wasn't sure if I could really line up the kids in that way, though I guess there was some sibling murder going on. I'm not sure about the headmaster but he fits well with the OT prophet style character in my mind. This book had a weird mashup of …
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Was Aquinas some sort of play on the futility of using reason? Of a day long gone? I was counting on your guys to work this out for me! :D
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Sarah Canary is not a book I am familiar with at all. Even though the book was probably named after Dolores, it felt to me like there actually was no real main character, and certainly no protagonist. The apocalyptic world felt to me almost like i…
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Yeah, the question as to whether there were actually other groups didn't seem to be one that Williams seemed too interested in actually answering, but rather it was a plot device to drive the narrative along. The deformities were just from the inces…
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I'm still sort of unsure how I feel about this book overall. I'm not generally one who enjoys disturbing things in books but in this case because the whole thing was this long stretch of failed humanity, I felt a little more detached from it all tha…
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The author also ran a play which was King Lear with sheep. Seems she has some sort of sheep thing going on.
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I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Questions are going up. I wasn't able to select the Monthly Book Discussion Category for these threads. Put it under Book Reviews for now, but they can be moved if possible.
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I should have some questions up by the weekend.
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I kept picking this up and putting it down again. Couldn't connect with it at all and DNF'ed about halfway through.
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I just started it - maybe 50 pages in.
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1) A certain level of literacy still seems to be required. I suppose it would be possible to use some sort of app to create a character but it would lead to a pretty bad experience for the others players and GM if you didn't have the literacy levels…