A review by jmm3rs
Frontier by Can Xue

challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

In the depths of the pandemic I had an idea to write a book that followed the not-logic of dreams, without explanation: a person morphing cleanly into someone else with no loss of sensibility, stepping to the right and suddenly being dislocated to a different city, warped versions of familiar hallways. I think, however, Can Xue beat me to the punch. This is a bizarre fever-dream of a book, and no it does not wrap up into a coherent plot point or arc, but it is so full of sensation and the fantastic that I couldn't put it down.