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A review by pagesplotsandpints
On the Merits of Unnaturalness by Samantha Shannon
3.0
Read Completed 3/12/25 | 3 stars | Book #33 of 2025
I'm waiting for my hold of THE DARK MIRROR to come in and found this from Libby while looking for other things, so I figured I'd check it out! It's really helpful to see all of the different orders laid out and explained, so that was really helpful. It's something I really wanted when I was reading THE BONE SEASON for the first time, so I wish I had known about this (though I'm assuming there's a wiki. I could have always looked stuff up).
The writing of it, I didn't really like. The style was really hard to follow, sort of old Victorian vibes even though it's not that old. It just made it a little difficult to enjoy.
I also wasn't really expecting it to be like a STORY so I'm not disappointed there, but it really also isn't. It's more of an encyclopedia with a foreword and it reads like it. Overall, a little helpful but not really an actual story so it's hard to really rate.
I'm waiting for my hold of THE DARK MIRROR to come in and found this from Libby while looking for other things, so I figured I'd check it out! It's really helpful to see all of the different orders laid out and explained, so that was really helpful. It's something I really wanted when I was reading THE BONE SEASON for the first time, so I wish I had known about this (though I'm assuming there's a wiki. I could have always looked stuff up).
The writing of it, I didn't really like. The style was really hard to follow, sort of old Victorian vibes even though it's not that old. It just made it a little difficult to enjoy.
I also wasn't really expecting it to be like a STORY so I'm not disappointed there, but it really also isn't. It's more of an encyclopedia with a foreword and it reads like it. Overall, a little helpful but not really an actual story so it's hard to really rate.