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A review by naye
Treason's Shore by Sherwood Smith
5.0
Oh wow.
I'm still short on words - honestly kind of dumbstruck with sheer awe. The writing is so imaginative and beautiful and it is so deeply emotional I'm still not recovered. In a good way! It's rare to find a series with such a wealth of characters that touch your heart in so many different ways. Now I can see how the frequent POV switches - so disconcerting at first - are handled deftly and brilliantly to make you not just see characters' actions, but understand what's going on in their hearts and their heads. And that, after a while, makes you as a reader feel really close to the whole cast, rather than to a handful of central POV characters.
So much of what I'm thinking and feeling and still reeling from is the magnificent tapestry of plot and character that's all incredibly spoilery, but in a nutshell:
This series is astoundingly good.
I'm still short on words - honestly kind of dumbstruck with sheer awe. The writing is so imaginative and beautiful and it is so deeply emotional I'm still not recovered. In a good way! It's rare to find a series with such a wealth of characters that touch your heart in so many different ways. Now I can see how the frequent POV switches - so disconcerting at first - are handled deftly and brilliantly to make you not just see characters' actions, but understand what's going on in their hearts and their heads. And that, after a while, makes you as a reader feel really close to the whole cast, rather than to a handful of central POV characters.
So much of what I'm thinking and feeling and still reeling from is the magnificent tapestry of plot and character that's all incredibly spoilery, but in a nutshell:
This series is astoundingly good.