A review by balletbookworm
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess

4.0

Between a 3 and 4 star, I think I’m going to round up to the 4 because I really, really like the premise - using the idea of two divergent Earths and their histories to explore the idea of forced migration and Otherness, “belonging” to a group, grief, and mourning. Where I struggled with the book was when the sections of the fictional book “The Pyronauts” from Hel and Vikram’s world were included in the narrative - the technique was distracting here and didn’t work as well as it did in a book like Station Eleven.