A review by ergative
Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones

4.25

This was very weird and bonkers in a way that worked very effectively. The high-tech interstellar galaxy-wide corporate civilization sat cheek-by-jowl with a more mythic-feeling, personal fantasy about an odd bit of forest with strange people in it, where time runs out of order; but the integration was effective. The final revelations of how everything fit together was a bit sprawling in a way that I remember always left me feeling a bit dizzy when I read Diana Wynne Jones as a child (we really didn't need Arthurian mythology shoved in there, to be honest); but overall this was playful and creative and I look forward to unpacking it with my book group.