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What Members Thought
Well that was unexpected.
I don't know how to review this book. But I really loved it.
Just like Too Like the Lighting, this book keeps moving the goal posts. Only right at the end did I realize what this book was, what it was about. It kept setting me up for one story, then delivering a very different idea. Complex and straightforward. Deeper than expected. Oddly funny. I think I will only know what to say about it after a year and a reread.
I suggest you give it a try ...more
I don't know how to review this book. But I really loved it.
Just like Too Like the Lighting, this book keeps moving the goal posts. Only right at the end did I realize what this book was, what it was about. It kept setting me up for one story, then delivering a very different idea. Complex and straightforward. Deeper than expected. Oddly funny. I think I will only know what to say about it after a year and a reread.
I suggest you give it a try ...more
I put this aside because it was too gruesome, but picked it up on a friend’s advice. So glad I did. This ended up being one of my favorite reads of 2017. It’s exciting and fun throughout, and the end reaches a kind of existential poetry.
What a very strange book! It's definitely fantasy--of the dark, twisted variety. I thought it was very original, but I didn't like many of the characters. Even the ones who I was supposed to be rooting for weren't very likeable. I felt more sorry for them than anything else. I felt like the story had a pretty dark take on humanity. What does it say that the two lions were my favorite characters?
I will say that the book is well written and well plotted with lots of twists and turns that come toge ...more
I will say that the book is well written and well plotted with lots of twists and turns that come toge ...more
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