A review by ninjamuse
The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar

challenging dark funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar was funny, heartbreaking, surreal, and powerful. It’s about a lone gunman on a quest for a magic flower, in a desert landscape full of Wild West tropes, circus imagery, and elder gods—but it’s also about life on the margins, love, memory, reality, and loss. It’s a story only Tidhar could pull off and he’s done it with aplomb. I went in blind and loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Drug use, Racism, Slavery, Grief, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Animal death and Murder