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A review by peppermina
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: Theory by Sienna Tristen
4.0
I will start this review by clarifying one thing. If a book is in a series that has not been completed, I will not read it until the series has been completed (and then I will usually binge read the series). Having said this, I have read this book at LEAST twice in the past few months.
I'm not usually a fan of heavy exposition or lore in my novels - my preferred type of book splashes character emotional and development arcs in short sharp prose ( I have a very short attention span). However, I decided to buy this book on a whim, (I think I follow you on twitter?) The delicateness and beauty with which you have managed to intertwine both the gorgeous treat of world building that you have managed to design and the breathtakingly realistic characters you have given us. As someone who is a part of the LGBT+ community and experiences anxiety personally, Ronoah's introspection was eerily like reading my own thoughts on a page. And of course, you don't understand how excited I was to read something so detailed and compelling that for once WASN'T set in 'Magic Faux-Medieval-Europe' for once.
As a (would-be) writer I am embarrassed to say I have often turned to several highlighted passages of your book in search of expertise on a particular turn of phrase or examples of clarity or unique metaphor and I am glad to say that each time I do this, I pick out some gem that I haven't caught previously.
One risk you took was to base turning points on a more reflective character arc rather than the reactive action to sudden crises that so saturate most books in the market today and for that I say- THANK YOU. Your book is truly a breath of fresh air.
The only negative point I can possibly scrounge up is that I don't currently have enough of the rest of the story in my hands right now so I can only beg you, Ms Tristen, to PLEASE continue in what I can only imagine deserves to be an illustrious career ahead of you. A very well done!
I'm not usually a fan of heavy exposition or lore in my novels - my preferred type of book splashes character emotional and development arcs in short sharp prose ( I have a very short attention span). However, I decided to buy this book on a whim, (I think I follow you on twitter?) The delicateness and beauty with which you have managed to intertwine both the gorgeous treat of world building that you have managed to design and the breathtakingly realistic characters you have given us. As someone who is a part of the LGBT+ community and experiences anxiety personally, Ronoah's introspection was eerily like reading my own thoughts on a page. And of course, you don't understand how excited I was to read something so detailed and compelling that for once WASN'T set in 'Magic Faux-Medieval-Europe' for once.
As a (would-be) writer I am embarrassed to say I have often turned to several highlighted passages of your book in search of expertise on a particular turn of phrase or examples of clarity or unique metaphor and I am glad to say that each time I do this, I pick out some gem that I haven't caught previously.
One risk you took was to base turning points on a more reflective character arc rather than the reactive action to sudden crises that so saturate most books in the market today and for that I say- THANK YOU. Your book is truly a breath of fresh air.
The only negative point I can possibly scrounge up is that I don't currently have enough of the rest of the story in my hands right now so I can only beg you, Ms Tristen, to PLEASE continue in what I can only imagine deserves to be an illustrious career ahead of you. A very well done!