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szurikat 's review for:
The City of Woven Streets
by Emmi Itäranta
The story is "small", the novel's primary focus is on setting the mood and on the breath-taking world-building. The book is a dystopia where the main thesis is dreaming is forbidden and contagious, if somebody dreams, they are taken out of their family and sent to basically concentration camp. The protagonist gets thrown into the plot, but relatively quickly takes control of her own life. The relationship between the main characters is pleasantly queer.
If I had to point out a fault in the book, then it should be the ending: the plot speed only managed to turn on with completely ruining the mood, which sacrificed the greatest value of the novel for a mediocre ending. Clumsy, rushed. But the prose is wonderful!
If I had to point out a fault in the book, then it should be the ending: the plot speed only managed to turn on with completely ruining the mood, which sacrificed the greatest value of the novel for a mediocre ending. Clumsy, rushed. But the prose is wonderful!