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A review by ruxandra_grr
Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Iona Datt Sharma, Katherine Fabian
3.0
I liked the idea of this more than the thing itself. And I actually loved the idea. This chaotic magical person disappears and his two night-and-day partners, Nat and Layla, try to find him, fumbling with magic they don't really understand.
My most favorite thing: Ari and Kay, Nat's friends, who really need to call me ASAP, because I want them in my life.
I'm all about exploring polyamory in fiction and I liked how this was handled here, with the two metamours learning how to work together and becoming a larger part of each other's lives, including meeting their own families, but I feel like there was a lot of space there to go in deeper in the characters and the conflict.
I liked the diversity of the characters, but the story seemed more like a sketch of a story and the characters more like sketches of characters. They weren't super fleshy. And this is weird for *me* to complain about, but too many variations on the 'pretending to be a cis-hetero patriarchal person' jokes or just mentions of this. I'm not complaining about PC here and telling kids to get off my lawn, and I use a lot of these jokes in real life, but in this story, it felt like too much after a while.
My most favorite thing: Ari and Kay, Nat's friends, who really need to call me ASAP, because I want them in my life.
I'm all about exploring polyamory in fiction and I liked how this was handled here, with the two metamours learning how to work together and becoming a larger part of each other's lives, including meeting their own families, but I feel like there was a lot of space there to go in deeper in the characters and the conflict.
I liked the diversity of the characters, but the story seemed more like a sketch of a story and the characters more like sketches of characters. They weren't super fleshy. And this is weird for *me* to complain about, but too many variations on the 'pretending to be a cis-hetero patriarchal person' jokes or just mentions of this. I'm not complaining about PC here and telling kids to get off my lawn, and I use a lot of these jokes in real life, but in this story, it felt like too much after a while.