Felt like reading a livejournal, in a good way. The first half is a hilarious take on living inside "the portal", which feels very real, and the second half is a personal tragedy, with lately the same voice.
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Sad and moving
trochee@bookwyrm.social reviewed Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
A worthy successor to Pratchett
5 stars
I love the ironic taste of this fantasy romance, and all of the main characters are people i know (including the insufferable misogynist scholar)
Shares Terry Pratchett's legacy of acknowledging dumb gender role stuff and then turning it on its head.
Good stuff.
First novel syndrome, transgressive but not quite bothering me
4 stars
I felt like this was the beginning of like seven different (and interesting) books, grafted onto two different endings that didn't write seem to match up with any of the seven
Nevertheless i found a lot of new SFF idea and story without ever feeling like it hit the trope heavy story arcs.
Definitely interested to see what KS puts out as a second effort, maybe without the need to fit in all the stories in their head (first novel syndrome)
Synthesis across many disciplines
5 stars
Love the flexibility and broad ranging exploration of different kinds of "thinking" and the possibility of granting agency to more than just a narrow class of human people