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A review by lucsbooks
Hummingbird and Kraken by Reese Morrison
4.0
I only read "Hummingbird and Kraken" for one reason and one reason only: Reese Morrison wrote it.
Monsters and tentacles are not my usual kinks but instead of going in a darker direction, Reese chose instead to tell a really sweet story between two people that enjoy cooking and snuggling and are so perfectly matched for each other that that was all that mattered to me.
Declan in particular was a delightful and refreshing character to read about. Here is a gender non-conforming, very camp and feminine presenting young person that refuses to be treated as lesser and fights as dirty and hard as they feel is warranted. I loved that. I loved that they got to have a big bad boyfriend and that Geir knew that Declan would tell him if he needed him to intervene.
Also, let's applaud Geir who upon being faced with something he does not want to deal with simply goes to live at the bottom of a lake forever. That's the kind of life I want.
One of the best parts of this story was its secondary characters and how mindful and careful the author was of Native American costumes and traditions and how that added so much to the book and influenced the world-building. Race and gender in the Native American world were also discussed several times and deeply influenced the way the story was told instead of just presenting it through the European binary must of us were raised with.
Rohahen, in particular, stole the show in such a way that he got a short story of his own and I'm really looking forward to it.
I can barely wait for whatever Reese Morrison will gift us with next.
Thank you to Reese Morrison for this DRC.
Monsters and tentacles are not my usual kinks but instead of going in a darker direction, Reese chose instead to tell a really sweet story between two people that enjoy cooking and snuggling and are so perfectly matched for each other that that was all that mattered to me.
Declan in particular was a delightful and refreshing character to read about. Here is a gender non-conforming, very camp and feminine presenting young person that refuses to be treated as lesser and fights as dirty and hard as they feel is warranted. I loved that. I loved that they got to have a big bad boyfriend and that Geir knew that Declan would tell him if he needed him to intervene.
Also, let's applaud Geir who upon being faced with something he does not want to deal with simply goes to live at the bottom of a lake forever. That's the kind of life I want.
One of the best parts of this story was its secondary characters and how mindful and careful the author was of Native American costumes and traditions and how that added so much to the book and influenced the world-building. Race and gender in the Native American world were also discussed several times and deeply influenced the way the story was told instead of just presenting it through the European binary must of us were raised with.
Rohahen, in particular, stole the show in such a way that he got a short story of his own and I'm really looking forward to it.
I can barely wait for whatever Reese Morrison will gift us with next.
Thank you to Reese Morrison for this DRC.