slauderdale’s Reviews > Pearl in the Void > Status Update

Annoyed at Keshul for being at a loss in this exchange. Obviously it is possible to be better even within Roika’s fucked up system. What indicates the room has to be without any light or anything to do or any company but themselves? That’s just stupid. And I highly doubt it would breed better quality children.

Still loving the book, but I'm pretty tired of Roika the rapist. I'm willing to grant that the other characters find him charismatic, but terminal arrogance and lust on legs does not a personality bestow. "I won't pry into your life before if you don't pry into mine," but frankly, backstory is what he's missing. Maybe eventually we will get some.

This story actually threw a few plot twists at me that I was not expecting. I was expecting a twist, it just wasn’t the twist that actually came. Good stuff.

“Tell them the Fire in the Void has words for the emodo of het Narel.” Fuck yeahh!

I'm really loving this so far, more than "The Worth of a Shell" to be honest. Slow-burning social/political horror, but the main character is no fool and he is fighting NOW. Thing is, he is on the horns of a trilemma: accept brutal oppression under the Stone Moon, or fight them (and be crushed), or fight them (and succeed, thereby signing off on the death of his entire species.) There better be a way out of this.