"Blackfish City" First Impressions *No Spoilers*

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Come talk about your initial, general impressions!

Please save all discussion of particulars, details from the story, character choices, plot questions, etc. for the full spoiler thread.

Content warnings for those who want them: (view spoiler)[ homomisia, genocide, chronic illness (hide spoiler)] from Trigger Warning Database.

[Stella]

Picked up Blackfish City. Lots of terms on the first pages. A subartic city in a glacier age where residents may nanobond with rescued formerly wild creatures. The public narrative is still focused on gender and ethnic identity, but mostly as noise -- or so is my impression.

Fill is the initial narrator trying to accept that he suffers from the current sex disease. Society took all the ills of a decadent world into a future world, apparently.

Those are my first thoughts. Hope I didn't give away too much.

Stella Atrium

[Rebecca]

I'm at about 20% and having trouble enjoying the story, its jumping around from POVs a bit too often for my taste. Interesting setting but I'm not drawn in and may dnf if the next 10% doesn't go well for me. Others seem to like it tho, so don't let me dissuade you :)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Stella that's more than we usually allow! think feelings, what do you feel about it, rather than what the book is about

[Mel]

I am 15% in and not really feeling engaged with it yet. Perhaps it’s because so far being told from different POV and that can make a book more difficult to engage with early on. Will stick with it for the moment and hope it improves.

[Meredith]

I am at 23% in. I find the world really interesting and I've liked the intros to the different characters and starting to get to know them and their lives. I do feel it's been mostly (but not entirely) world-building so far. But I think things are going to pick up now.

[Stella]

Allison wrote: "Stella that's more than we usually allow! think feelings, what do you feel about it, rather than what the book is about"

I feel good...

[Marie]

I am 22% in and so far I am very intrigued. It's the type of book that just throws you in so it is bit hard to follow/remember all the stuff happening in different POVs. They switch very fast. I do enjoy multiple POVs though so this might be the book for me.

[Jen]

I started this one yesterday, bought it a couple of years ago so I'm glad to be getting to it. I'm getting a little bit of a Mieville vibe.