A review by wakenda
Earthsong by Suzette Haden Elgin

3.0

I loved Native Tongue, the first book in this trilogy, but the second two books weren't nearly as strong. This one is centered around a really interesting idea, focused on music instead of language, but the time span of the book is so long (literally hundreds of years) that it's just centered on the idea without any real characters with arcs. I was also disappointed that the preface was an explanation of how the story got told, from outside the world of the story, where the prefaces of the first two books were from within the universe of the story. Ultimately, I don't regret having read the second two, but I'd recommend that others read the first book and stop there.