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Mégapoles

N.K. Jemisin

3.98 AVERAGE

nahanarts's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

bhartwellmiller's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

beagley's review against another edition

3.0

Great attempt—uses a sort of American Gods frame to tackle important issues. Didn’t work for me, but I appreciate it.

antikonie's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jazdewills's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

reschafer's review against another edition

4.0

Slight Spoilers! The writing was good. It was a very unique and creative plot, though I thought it was a bit silly, with superficial characters. However, the allegory was quite interesting. I was born in Staten Island, though my grandma lived in Brooklyn, which is where my mom was raised and lived through most of her 20s until she met my dad, married, and they lived in Staten Island briefly while he was in grad school there. I never felt the need to justify my parents living in Staten Island until now. My aunt and uncle still live there, and my aunt likes Trump - at least now maybe I can understand why.

I didn't like the ending, plot wise. So they need all the boroughs to charge up the city to fight off the enemy, but when Staten Island is a lost cause, Jersey City will work? Allegory wise, I get the point of giving up on changing hearts and minds, and disregarding societal constructs about who to care about and where to find your allies. I recently read How to be an Antiracist, and this is one of his points. But I felt the story was cheating in dropping SI for Jersey City. I would definitely read her other writings, but won't read the sequel. I am a bit interested in having my NY family read the book, to see if they think the characterization of the boroughs is accurate.