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A review by jb4nay
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
4.0
I had a nice time with this. The book was very ambitious with 3 stories that ultimately tie together. I think the info on Maya culture were very well-researched. The future society was fleshed out in a way that I found very interesting too.
I was curious how the whole story would wrap up to fit the loop and I think it was vague enough to draw different conclusions, but complete enough to feel like the characters had some sort of finality.
Despite its length, I had a pretty easy time flipping through this. I felt the pacing was good. I enjoyed the use of different languages throughout.
The sexual content makes sense in context, even if the incest stuff was weird as a 2023 reader, but given the time in the book, I could suspend my disbelief. It was still weird. I didn’t mind the other sexual content in the book
I was curious how the whole story would wrap up to fit the loop and I think it was vague enough to draw different conclusions, but complete enough to feel like the characters had some sort of finality.
Despite its length, I had a pretty easy time flipping through this. I felt the pacing was good. I enjoyed the use of different languages throughout.
The sexual content makes sense in context, even if the incest stuff was weird as a 2023 reader, but given the time in the book, I could suspend my disbelief. It was still weird. I didn’t mind the other sexual content in the book