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A review by declaired
The House of Always by Jenn Lyons
5.0
I just!! like these books so much!!
The House of Always is the "your friends are your power" scene in any anime or videogame to buoy up the protagonist in his seemingly-impossible fight against the end of the world, done long-form. It's also a haunted house story. It's also a story about how a kraken can love a dragon very very much. It's incredible. Jenn Lyons throws all the story tropes I love and many that feel like excerpts from my teenaged dreams (why shouldn't there be a race of horse-people and people-horses and also like some soul-bonding between them? Why shouldn't you turn your characters into mermaids?) into a big blender of emotions.
As always I recommend the audiobooks because the cast of characters is huge and the narrators do a fantastic job of using different (but CONSISTENT) voices across all the novels for all the characters; just an extra level of context when someone you haven't seen for a minute comes riding back on screen, or if you're likely to confuse your Thurvishar with your Terindel or your Teraeth.
The House of Always is the "your friends are your power" scene in any anime or videogame to buoy up the protagonist in his seemingly-impossible fight against the end of the world, done long-form. It's also a haunted house story. It's also a story about how a kraken can love a dragon very very much. It's incredible. Jenn Lyons throws all the story tropes I love and many that feel like excerpts from my teenaged dreams (why shouldn't there be a race of horse-people and people-horses and also like some soul-bonding between them? Why shouldn't you turn your characters into mermaids?) into a big blender of emotions.
As always I recommend the audiobooks because the cast of characters is huge and the narrators do a fantastic job of using different (but CONSISTENT) voices across all the novels for all the characters; just an extra level of context when someone you haven't seen for a minute comes riding back on screen, or if you're likely to confuse your Thurvishar with your Terindel or your Teraeth.