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A review by revellee
Storyteller by Amy Thomson
3.0
I enjoyed the general story. I love a pioneer/origin story.
I thought the writing and details of the story were mostly too juvenile that I thought this was meant to be a children’s book until the sudden fuck words thrown in and the random sexcapades.
I loved that the main characters are an old woman and a gay kid. It’s refreshing to have something other than a white male coming of age story. However, I don’t know anything about being gay or coming of age as a gay person to know if this part of the story was done right. It did seem a little stereotyped to me.
The ending with Abeha-offspring/Abeha-Teller-continuing-entity cheapened all the grief Teller and Samad went through. Let them die. I thought the harsels and the world was beautifully alien until that “rare” ending with the harsel who can keep memories more than alive inside him. It was just too convenient and perfect in a world that is already too perfect because it’s secret overlord is somewhat of a control freak. I really wish it would have ended with Samad leaving for Jump Pilot school and leaving Thelassa to the Thelassans and the Hars. A better epilogue would have been him coming back hundreds of years later and seeing what Thelassa would become without Teller’s constant influence.
I thought the writing and details of the story were mostly too juvenile that I thought this was meant to be a children’s book until the sudden fuck words thrown in and the random sexcapades.
I loved that the main characters are an old woman and a gay kid. It’s refreshing to have something other than a white male coming of age story. However, I don’t know anything about being gay or coming of age as a gay person to know if this part of the story was done right. It did seem a little stereotyped to me.
The ending with Abeha-offspring/Abeha-Teller-continuing-entity cheapened all the grief Teller and Samad went through. Let them die. I thought the harsels and the world was beautifully alien until that “rare” ending with the harsel who can keep memories more than alive inside him. It was just too convenient and perfect in a world that is already too perfect because it’s secret overlord is somewhat of a control freak. I really wish it would have ended with Samad leaving for Jump Pilot school and leaving Thelassa to the Thelassans and the Hars. A better epilogue would have been him coming back hundreds of years later and seeing what Thelassa would become without Teller’s constant influence.