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kanaanhardaway 's review for:
Speaking Bones
by Ken Liu
I think my previous reviews capture the vibe. This series starts male-heavy and becomes female-heavy by the end. Though I would argue the story told the books is about a land and the people who inhabit it, and not necessarily about the characters through which the author tells the story. That said, the characters come across as very dynamic and unique.
The author likes to jump to big scenes, then backfill how the tools of the scene came to be. We also spedrun through a few bureaucratic issues. I’m not giving this one 5 stars because we have had so many fantastical, myth-worthy solutions in the series and have had some characters make assumptions that really felt out of character. These didn’t happen more in this book; I just started tiring of them.
I still really enjoyed it because of the intimacy with the world that felt rooted deeply in its past with an eye toward the future. The author concludes the series well by giving the reader a resolution while retaining the complexity of the world and people.
The author likes to jump to big scenes, then backfill how the tools of the scene came to be. We also spedrun through a few bureaucratic issues. I’m not giving this one 5 stars because we have had so many fantastical, myth-worthy solutions in the series and have had some characters make assumptions that really felt out of character. These didn’t happen more in this book; I just started tiring of them.
I still really enjoyed it because of the intimacy with the world that felt rooted deeply in its past with an eye toward the future. The author concludes the series well by giving the reader a resolution while retaining the complexity of the world and people.