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Exordia by Seth Dickinson
5.0
challenging funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

r/fantasy bingo 2024-25; Multi POV
Hard Mode: At least five point of view characters. (DONE)

Another in the series of hard books with fairly hard sci-fi that I found difficult to read! However, I'd been looking for an excuse to read Exordia for this year's bingo so after some shuffling and DNFs I was SUPER thrilled to be able to shoehorn it in!! Because oh boy, did I ever fucking love it!! Seth lost me with the physics and maths a good amount of time, but it didn't stop me from being fully invested at all. I loved the characters and their fucking complex relationships, I loved the setting and the sheer alienness of the aliens (IRUVAGE!!! My beloved genocidal HAM OF A SNAKE!!!)! I came out with a bunch of ships and a huge boner for Clayton and Erik killing each other because my god. Hello? It'll keep me satisfied while I wait patiently for Baru 4 anyway. I originally put this in for the pubbed in '24 square, but realised that hard mode for that has to be a debut, so I switched it into this one.