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A review by titusfortner
The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
3.0
One of the 2017 Hugo nominations for best novelette.
The back story and the world and the mechanics of the magic doesn't fully make sense. I think this is an instance where the story is too ambitious to be contained in a novelette. The writing and the characters are both enjoyable and could easily have sustained more pages. The "present day author" premise is also great, but the author doesn't integrate it into the story the way I expected.
The back story and the world and the mechanics of the magic doesn't fully make sense. I think this is an instance where the story is too ambitious to be contained in a novelette. The writing and the characters are both enjoyable and could easily have sustained more pages. The "present day author" premise is also great, but the author doesn't integrate it into the story the way I expected.