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A review by tzurky
Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.0
3.5 stars
This isn’t mind blowing by any means but it’s a welcome diversion, if you’re looking for that and has Tchaikovsky’s familiar blend of sweetness and significant bite. The setting is downright dystopia, but he still manages to wring some goodness and humanity out of it. And once again hammer home the point that acting humane is open to all, be they human or not and similarly, it’s not only the non-human that are inhumane.
Yea the magic system isn’t well thought out or described (and my benchmark is fucking Sanderson, so this is basically at the opposite end of the spectrum) and the world is rendered impressionistically, in broad strokes rather than details. But the point of the story are the character arcs and they’re completed and well done so I’m going to be generous and round up.
This isn’t mind blowing by any means but it’s a welcome diversion, if you’re looking for that and has Tchaikovsky’s familiar blend of sweetness and significant bite. The setting is downright dystopia, but he still manages to wring some goodness and humanity out of it. And once again hammer home the point that acting humane is open to all, be they human or not and similarly, it’s not only the non-human that are inhumane.
Yea the magic system isn’t well thought out or described (and my benchmark is fucking Sanderson, so this is basically at the opposite end of the spectrum) and the world is rendered impressionistically, in broad strokes rather than details. But the point of the story are the character arcs and they’re completed and well done so I’m going to be generous and round up.