A review by heron61
Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys

5.0

I just finished this sequel to Emrys' brilliant novel Winter Tide, and loved this one just as much. I loved it both for the same wonderful characters and also for placing them both in 1949 New York City, and also for their interactions with the deeply alien Mi Go, who were both believably alien and also fascinatingly (but not entirely) comprehensible. As I had hope, this novel added depth and richness to Emrys' vision of the Cthulhu Mythos, with the introduction of Mi Go, ghouls, and other types of creatures, which also remaining grounded in the social and political reality of the years just after World War II. Just as much as Winter Tide, it is a novel about community, found family, attempting to find humane solutions to complex problems, and of contact with both wonders and terrors.