While reading The Inheritance trilogy, I keep having to remind myself of how much I adore the author and man, the second one – The Broken Kingdoms – does not make that easy. There’s just something really jarring about exploring this new fantasy world and then suddenly your narrator bemoans getting “dumped” by her ex-boyfriend. But I’ve read her later books and I know how freakishly talented she is. Reading these is watching her get there, and it’s a nice reminder that people don’t just fall out of […]
Exactly what I bloodydamn well needed
Sack up, you slagging pixies. We’re back. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve visited Darrow’s worlds – I needed some recovery time after Morning Star broke my heart and shat all over the pieces. I just hadn’t been emotionally ready for a reread. So I went into Iron Gold a little blind which was nice in some ways and not so nice in others. The book also starts suuuper slow but once it finally gathers momentum and starts running, it goes full Juggernaut, barreling through walls and […]
Margaret Atwood gets weird, y’all
A coworker recommended this one after I’d said I’d watched and really, really liked Alias Grace. Before this, the only Atwood book I had read was Handmaid’s Tale and while this also deals with a dystopian future and the end of humanity as we know it, it’s more of a science fiction than philosophical end. It is also waaaay too clearly just the first book in a series. Like The Hobbit took one book and divided it into three movies – I feel like Oryx and Crake took one movie […]
No yeah it’s what you think it is
I straight up did not realize this wasn’t set in the US until, like, the last chapter, so whoops for my American centralism. That it takes place in Sweden does change some things, but not a lot. And it was unnerving to realize that some of our darkest realities are no better on the other side of the Atlantic. The book jacket bears out the broad plot. Beartown is a small hamlet and it is dying. Jobs are down, alcoholism is up, and all they […]