captainfern 's review for:

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
2.0

Well, I finished it, but boy, that was a slog. Disappointing, since I've loved all of Jemisin's other books. So, the reason I like science fiction and fantasy is that it allows you to enter another world, and escape, even briefly, the horrors of this one. There are, most likely, metaphors and allegories within the imagined world that help us think about some of the big problems in our world, but it's not necessarily a 1 to 1 comparison. This book, on the other hand, was like a hammer, banging me on the head with the very real problems facing our world. It was just too real, and reality is way too sad and hard right now. The author herself even says that this book was hard to write because "her creative energy was fading under the onslaught of reality." I could feel it.