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How does one review such a wholly unexpected gorgeous enigma? I'm certainly not sure how, but I can't wait to see what you had to say about it.
Thank you to Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone for showing me I can, in fact, appreciate poetry. I just needed to find the weird and lush prose of galaxy hopping, time stopping, futurist romantics.
The symbolism of finishing a book about a red and blue war on Nov 4th, 2020....is not lost on me. Take care friends.
From the Collection: The Story of Red & Blue ...more
Thank you to Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone for showing me I can, in fact, appreciate poetry. I just needed to find the weird and lush prose of galaxy hopping, time stopping, futurist romantics.
The symbolism of finishing a book about a red and blue war on Nov 4th, 2020....is not lost on me. Take care friends.
From the Collection: The Story of Red & Blue ...more
If the book and I were in a relationship, I might end it with the cliched "it's not you, it's me".
It's stylish, beautifully written, but the substance (or whatever implied) did not move me or interest me in any bit. Maybe if this is a short story, I could appreciate it more. After all, a post-Singularity technotopia, a single organic consciousness, a time war, should make an interesting read, no? For me, just not in this novella length.
For epistolary works that more enjoyable, I recommend Time ...more
It's stylish, beautifully written, but the substance (or whatever implied) did not move me or interest me in any bit. Maybe if this is a short story, I could appreciate it more. After all, a post-Singularity technotopia, a single organic consciousness, a time war, should make an interesting read, no? For me, just not in this novella length.
For epistolary works that more enjoyable, I recommend Time ...more
What I loved:
The writing is poetic and beautiful; there were interesting images; I was rooting for the characters; it was a very intriguing world.
What I didn't love:
The narrator. I think. I listened to the audio version and I had a hard time connecting with the voice of the narrator. She was almost monotone. I don't know. She did do very well at capturing the intimate tone of the love letters. Maybe she was perfect and I just struggled connecting with the story?
I feel very much like I don't t ...more
The writing is poetic and beautiful; there were interesting images; I was rooting for the characters; it was a very intriguing world.
What I didn't love:
The narrator. I think. I listened to the audio version and I had a hard time connecting with the voice of the narrator. She was almost monotone. I don't know. She did do very well at capturing the intimate tone of the love letters. Maybe she was perfect and I just struggled connecting with the story?
I feel very much like I don't t ...more
This is precisely the type of book that is not for me. Lyrical, poetic novels are not my jam, and this was extremely poetic and lyrical. Very hard to follow, very hard to parse meaning from the overly saturated phrases. Thankfully, it's also very short.
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Felt very overwritten (there’s a joke about prose purpling which I … yes? But not just the language the joke was about?) for a predictable twist.
Apr 23, 2020
♥Xeni♥
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2020
Adelia
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Caroline
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Efreak
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