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_b_a_l_ 's review for:
Empress of Forever
by Max Gladstone
"You’re scared and alone in a big damn galaxy and you scream through the night. Great. Welcome to the party."
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"Gray stuck his hands into the plasma loop, drew them out cupped around golden fire, and drank the star; he glowed as he swallowed its light, and then, when he could fill himself no more, collapsed and belched and rolled, sweating diamond drops that clunked against the floor when they fell."
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"Was this what they called growing up? She’d thought that meant maturity, weathering, endurance. But instead you gathered one terror after another to yourself, until you were a skin-clad skeleton cradling a self made up of wounds."
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"She gulped the memories down one by one like coals, and lay there forever beneath the burning stars. When forever ended she pushed herself up."
A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy is not a bad description, but that's not what makes it so good. Spoiler - its how Mr Gladstone uses words.
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"Gray stuck his hands into the plasma loop, drew them out cupped around golden fire, and drank the star; he glowed as he swallowed its light, and then, when he could fill himself no more, collapsed and belched and rolled, sweating diamond drops that clunked against the floor when they fell."
*******
"Was this what they called growing up? She’d thought that meant maturity, weathering, endurance. But instead you gathered one terror after another to yourself, until you were a skin-clad skeleton cradling a self made up of wounds."
*******
"She gulped the memories down one by one like coals, and lay there forever beneath the burning stars. When forever ended she pushed herself up."
A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy is not a bad description, but that's not what makes it so good. Spoiler - its how Mr Gladstone uses words.