A review by alex_watkins
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee

5.0

So impressed with the world Yoon Ha Lee has built. This book I found to definitely be a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy (even if some loose ends are still dangling - seems like there is room for a successor series). I am into the weird math and calendrical warfare and the whole thing going on. Warning for spoilers for the first/second book - One thing about the sequels is that I miss Cheris, who while continuing to be an important figure is only very rarely a POV character in either of the sequels - which is too bad because she is the best. I get why - seeing into Cheris mind would let us know too much, but it makes me sad. And because Cheris is the best mathematicians we lose out on scenes of characters doing bravura mathematics (we see the results but not the thought process, which was so well done in book 1). There is queer representation in this book, but I'm struggling with whether I like it or not - sometimes it verges on being tropey in a disney villain kind of way.