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A review by songwind
Among Others by Jo Walton
4.0
This book was several kinds of wonderful.
It's several different things, as most good books are. It's a love letter to 70s-80s SF. It's a school and coming of age drama. It's a bit of romance. And it's a fantasy, about what happens after you defeat the Big Bad and have to live with the fallout.
Morwena's mother is a witch, and at least half-mad. She and her twin sister stopped her plots and protected the fairies of south Wales from her, at great cost. To get away from her, Morwena had to run away.
The story picks up after she's been placed with her father. Daniel had run away when the girls were just babies, and never met them. Mor doesn't blame him, really, but doesn't know him either. On top of that, he and his sisters are sending her away to an upper class boarding school. The only thing she has to bond with him over is their mutual love of science fiction and fantasy.
At school, she has to learn to fit in, to find her "karras" (she loves Vonnegut), and figure out who, exactly, she's going to be.
And her mother still isn't done with her.
It's several different things, as most good books are. It's a love letter to 70s-80s SF. It's a school and coming of age drama. It's a bit of romance. And it's a fantasy, about what happens after you defeat the Big Bad and have to live with the fallout.
Morwena's mother is a witch, and at least half-mad. She and her twin sister stopped her plots and protected the fairies of south Wales from her, at great cost. To get away from her, Morwena had to run away.
The story picks up after she's been placed with her father. Daniel had run away when the girls were just babies, and never met them. Mor doesn't blame him, really, but doesn't know him either. On top of that, he and his sisters are sending her away to an upper class boarding school. The only thing she has to bond with him over is their mutual love of science fiction and fantasy.
At school, she has to learn to fit in, to find her "karras" (she loves Vonnegut), and figure out who, exactly, she's going to be.
And her mother still isn't done with her.