Joe Kessler’s Reviews > Fable of the Swan > Status Update

"I blearilied at him. I acted in a bleary fashion. I don’t know what acts I took. I was just bleary about them."

"Slid the banister on her two feet. It was ridiculous. I refuse to accept it. I had the sudden disorienting sense of what it must be like to be wicked and to watch heroes do these stupidly flawless and heroic things while you must live misshapen, cowardly, and ashamed."

"My brain shattered and fell out my ears (metaphorically) but fortunately my mouth does not actually need it to carry on a conversation. The brain is a vestigial, useless organ, like the tonsils, used mostly for regulating hormones and serving as a convenient reservoir of bone marrow."

I think I've said this several times already, but this book is... very strange.

This book is doing strange things with pronouns. "The sky there was then and in that moment it burned it, like a crystal dome above him it, and cast it back the fire of his jewel. The stars they shone brilliant in the jointing of that dome they, gleamed with light incalculable they, and then one by one, they the stars they one by one began to fall." I haven't quite figured out the rule(s?) or when it gets applied.

This is heavy, dark, and weird so far. Not sure if I'm loving it, but definitely intrigued.