A review by bookstorecryptid
The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg

4.0

I loved a lot about this book: the casual queerness in a society that is just like that (truly a utopia), the concept of the deepnames and the starkeeper, the way the world was described and the poetry of the writing style. However it felt a little rushed, and more of the world building could have been expanded upon to give us all a deeper understanding of things. There was a lot of repetition of things that felt didn't really need to be repeated, but perhaps that is my own personal pet peeve about repetition cropping up. I wanted more of a development between Lilun and Ranra, because I'm not a huge fan of insta-love, and even with Lilun wanting things to go slow, it was pretty much A Thing from the get go.

However, as someone with autistic traits, I could really relate to a lot of things that Lilun experienced (though not all of it, because we're all different, and that's the beauty of things) and it felt nice to be seen in that way, but I wished that there was a bit more of an understanding of them by other characters.