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Vespertine
by Margaret Rogerson
3.5 stars rounded up. When a novice nun takes possession of a revenant to protect her abbey from attack, she's forced to flee, to save her people, and to rethink with everything she thought she knew about relationships between the sighted and the spirits they cleanse and possess. This is in every word, and I mean every plot reveal, every character arc, supremely predictable - but in a kind of "Holy Shit! Two Cakes!" way: want some grumpy soulbonding and an outsider character carving her little niche in the world? good news, this is heaps of that, with a gloomy/spooky aesthetic for good measure.
I wish it weren't so easy. There's a scene where the protagonist is explicitly told which is indicative of the tonal issues: at least on a social level, the wish-fulfillment is so complete as to be unrelatable, almost alienating despite the obvious good intentions. But I still liked this, in no small part because I am the holy-shit-two-cakes audience: I love this trope and won't turn down another take on it.
I wish it weren't so easy. There's a scene where the protagonist is explicitly told