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A review by lanidon
A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford
4.0
The core of this book is a very beautiful, nuanced meditation on identity and gender both as an individual and I'm the context of society, but then there's this gloss of basic romantasy overtop that feels like it hinders the impact of the total package. It's like putting a candy coating on a beautiful, crisp apple and turning it sickly sweet and hard to bite into. I enjoy romance and, in fact, I enjoyed this romance, yet the gratuitous sex pulled focus from the lovely ripe fruit of story.
My one actual qualm with the story that really bugged me is that in the end
Calla's badge on left on the wagon is a fox, a symbol of Grae's vision of her. So much of the story is about finding and redefining herself outside of the people and society she was raised with, only to go and decide the only single image to mark her new life is someone else's image of her. Calla is more than Grae's little fox mate, so Calla should have a unique symbol
My one actual qualm with the story that really bugged me is that in the end
Calla's badge on left on the wagon is a fox, a symbol of Grae's vision of her. So much of the story is about finding and redefining herself outside of the people and society she was raised with, only to go and decide the only single image to mark her new life is someone else's image of her. Calla is more than Grae's little fox mate, so Calla should have a unique symbol