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I picked this book up because the opening promised a story unlike anything i'd read before:
“Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert.”
I hadn't read like, straight (well, I mean, it's queer, but genre-straight. ish.) adult scifi in a while, and this felt like a good way to rectify that gap. And it is so incredibly different than a lot of other stories, and I'm pretty into it!
Things I liked:
The worldbuilding is RAD.
The characters are HUGE ASSHOLES but you still hope good stuff happens to them
This woman writes romantic longing PURELY in actions while the characters continually insult and belittle each other while DESPERATELY LOVING it's pathetic i'm so asjdfl;kj about it
There is so much plot and fighting and practical nitty-gritty scheming and a LOT of good bluffing
Thing I don't know how to feel about, because it's cool and gross:
Magic, and also almost everything in the world, runs on bugs. cars are organic and run on bugs. also they are bugs. houses are made out of bug secretions. giant bugs might eat you. oh my god. bugs.
A lot of the book is like-- delightfully cool and gross. this is not normally my style but i am really enjoying it.
Anyway it took me a while to get into the series but once I came back to it after the holidays I went all the way in.
“Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert.”
I hadn't read like, straight (well, I mean, it's queer, but genre-straight. ish.) adult scifi in a while, and this felt like a good way to rectify that gap. And it is so incredibly different than a lot of other stories, and I'm pretty into it!
Things I liked:
The worldbuilding is RAD.
The characters are HUGE ASSHOLES but you still hope good stuff happens to them
This woman writes romantic longing PURELY in actions while the characters continually insult and belittle each other while DESPERATELY LOVING it's pathetic i'm so asjdfl;kj about it
There is so much plot and fighting and practical nitty-gritty scheming and a LOT of good bluffing
Thing I don't know how to feel about, because it's cool and gross:
Magic, and also almost everything in the world, runs on bugs. cars are organic and run on bugs. also they are bugs. houses are made out of bug secretions. giant bugs might eat you. oh my god. bugs.
A lot of the book is like-- delightfully cool and gross. this is not normally my style but i am really enjoying it.
Anyway it took me a while to get into the series but once I came back to it after the holidays I went all the way in.