A review by lasbooks
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Beautiful, but tedious. Evocative prose that sinks you into a liminal space, like you're the only one awake to view the twilight world. Phrasing and sentences that feel they could only come from callused hands that labored for decades in this familiar but strange world. Turns mundane, corporeality into pages-long plot in a way that honors what it means to be alive. Yet - each story turns on such small insights, such minor realizations that barely any "plot" happens. Such that I was eager to be done with each story and the book as a whole, ready to move on, even as I admired the craft of the writing, even as I thought I should definitely re-read this book again some day.