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The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells

My rating: 3 of 5 stars
More fantasy winged matriarchal hive creature adventure. This book had the crushing misfortune to follow one of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time, and in comparison it just couldn't stand up. I enjoyed it, but the contrast between this book, in which a lot of plot nonsense happens and there's an occasional signpost to remind us that this is about community-building and homecoming, and the last book I read, in which plot and theme worked together like paired muscle fiber . . . well, it was a little painful.
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