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The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
May. 22nd, 2020 03:46 pmThe Unspoken Name
4/5. Fantasy about a young girl raised to be a sacrifice to her creepy creepy god, and what happens when she decides to become the sword hand of a visiting wizard instead, oh also she's a literal troll.
This is great. It has that very down-to-earth sensibility slapped over a complex fantasy world. You know, the sort of thing where the main character will say "what the fuck?" after someone grandly explains something mystical to her. But under the adventuring and the cool world building is a story of young people – mostly girls – raised up to be disposable, to be fed into an infinitely hungry maw. (I almost said "inhuman maw," but none of them are human, so that is not actually helpful). And how that marks them even after they think they have turned down another path.
Speaking of which, I spent the first bit of this book worried that the author did not know one of her main characters is a user and an asshole, and my opinion of the whole book was going to turn on that knowledge. So for anyone else so concerned, the author knows. That's much of the point.
Also, there's a cute lesbian troll/goblin romance.
Content notes: Violence.
4/5. Fantasy about a young girl raised to be a sacrifice to her creepy creepy god, and what happens when she decides to become the sword hand of a visiting wizard instead, oh also she's a literal troll.
This is great. It has that very down-to-earth sensibility slapped over a complex fantasy world. You know, the sort of thing where the main character will say "what the fuck?" after someone grandly explains something mystical to her. But under the adventuring and the cool world building is a story of young people – mostly girls – raised up to be disposable, to be fed into an infinitely hungry maw. (I almost said "inhuman maw," but none of them are human, so that is not actually helpful). And how that marks them even after they think they have turned down another path.
Speaking of which, I spent the first bit of this book worried that the author did not know one of her main characters is a user and an asshole, and my opinion of the whole book was going to turn on that knowledge. So for anyone else so concerned, the author knows. That's much of the point.
Also, there's a cute lesbian troll/goblin romance.
Content notes: Violence.