el dang reviewed The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
Review of 'The Winged Histories' on 'LibraryThing'
4 stars
A pleasure to come back to Olondria, and good to see more of the cracks in a world that has a dangerously twee surface. This book really felt more like four novellas to me than a single novel, even though they are all about the same events. The use of four distinct storytellers was interesting, but somehow it didn't quite drag me all the way into its world in the way that the one extended fever dream of A Stranger In Olondria did.
A pleasure to come back to Olondria, and good to see more of the cracks in a world that has a dangerously twee surface. This book really felt more like four novellas to me than a single novel, even though they are all about the same events. The use of four distinct storytellers was interesting, but somehow it didn't quite drag me all the way into its world in the way that the one extended fever dream of A Stranger In Olondria did.