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Note: I deliberately put off reviewing Revelator and the Planetfall series because I loved them but a lot of what I loved is hugely spoilery, and I wanted to discuss them with people who've read them. So if anyone is likely to read them in the very near future or has already read them, please tell me.
Revelator is brilliant historical folk horror on two time tracks with a bootlegger heroine and generations of girls and women who commune with the God in the Mountain. It has a very compelling, morally gray, sometimes very likable set of characters, a fantastic narrative voice, and one of the best monsters I've ever encountered. Not particularly gory but contains complicated, world-specific, well-handled issues of child abuse, cults, and consent.
Planetfall has fantastic, extremely detailed and believable worldbuilding in the classic sense of "how this technology impacts the world," very compelling narratives, and complex main characters. It's very dark and the world is AWFUL in ways with upsetting resonances to multiple current events, but not without hope. I loved it but literally all the trigger warnings.
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Note: I deliberately put off reviewing Revelator and the Planetfall series because I loved them but a lot of what I loved is hugely spoilery, and I wanted to discuss them with people who've read them. So if anyone is likely to read them in the very near future or has already read them, please tell me.
Revelator is brilliant historical folk horror on two time tracks with a bootlegger heroine and generations of girls and women who commune with the God in the Mountain. It has a very compelling, morally gray, sometimes very likable set of characters, a fantastic narrative voice, and one of the best monsters I've ever encountered. Not particularly gory but contains complicated, world-specific, well-handled issues of child abuse, cults, and consent.
Planetfall has fantastic, extremely detailed and believable worldbuilding in the classic sense of "how this technology impacts the world," very compelling narratives, and complex main characters. It's very dark and the world is AWFUL in ways with upsetting resonances to multiple current events, but not without hope. I loved it but literally all the trigger warnings.
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