nic_nacks 's review for:

The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
3.0

3.5 ⭐️ Honestly, I was going to give it a 2 but the last 80 or so pages deserve an extra 1.5 stars all by themselves. It was worth it but the middle was a slog, despite the book only being 290 pages total. Probably could have been workshopped into a killer short story or novella.