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A review by tansy
Liberty and Other Stories by Alexis Hall
adventurous
funny
3.5
The second book in Hall's Prosperityverse series collects four stories featuring the characters from the first book. I suspect this will work better if you've read the first book in the series. Also as the stories are all being told by different people for different ends they're all stylistically different, which meant that I found this book a bit hit and miss.
Shackles - a prequel to the first book exploring the first meeting between Ruben Crowe and Milord. It's fine, but Crowe is an idiot.
Squamous with a Chance of Rain - a prequel to the first book exploring the events that shaped Miss Grey. My absolute favourite of the bunch. A funny pastiche of Lovecraft, and of gothic fiction more generally, that also sends up "The Sound of Music".
Cloudy Climes & Starless Skies - set after the events of the first book, but recounting events that took place earlier. This is Byron Kae telling Piccadilly his life story. My least favourite and the story I got stuck on for some time. I find Kae nice, but uninteresting I'm afraid.
Liberty - set after the events of the first book. This is an epistolary story - it's a collection of letters, reports and witness testimonies being presented at a trial. It's an adventure narrative with a bittersweet, ambivalent ending.
Shackles - a prequel to the first book exploring the first meeting between Ruben Crowe and Milord. It's fine, but Crowe is an idiot.
Squamous with a Chance of Rain - a prequel to the first book exploring the events that shaped Miss Grey. My absolute favourite of the bunch. A funny pastiche of Lovecraft, and of gothic fiction more generally, that also sends up "The Sound of Music".
Cloudy Climes & Starless Skies - set after the events of the first book, but recounting events that took place earlier. This is Byron Kae telling Piccadilly his life story. My least favourite and the story I got stuck on for some time. I find Kae nice, but uninteresting I'm afraid.
Liberty - set after the events of the first book. This is an epistolary story - it's a collection of letters, reports and witness testimonies being presented at a trial. It's an adventure narrative with a bittersweet, ambivalent ending.