The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
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lightreadsThe Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
4/5. Leckie does fantasy. You should know up front that half of this book is in second person, and all of it is narrated by a rock, and it is great. I fuckin' love that rock.
Seriously, this book is wonderful and unusual. It has this poised, restrained quality, right up to the point where it really doesn't anymore. I mentally shrieked at the last line. And Leckie is in such exquisite control of the stuntwriting here, it's just, I finished this and wandered around saying "Damn. Just damn," for a while. This is my favorite of her books so far, hands down.
I'm not really saying what this is about, am I? Um. It's about a very clever trans man accompanying his superior to the city to undertake a complicated magical inheritance, and plots, and international relations, and oh yeah the wars of gods who make things true by speaking them, so they'd better be damned sure they have the power to back up their words. Also a rock. I fuckin' love that rock.
4/5. Leckie does fantasy. You should know up front that half of this book is in second person, and all of it is narrated by a rock, and it is great. I fuckin' love that rock.
Seriously, this book is wonderful and unusual. It has this poised, restrained quality, right up to the point where it really doesn't anymore. I mentally shrieked at the last line. And Leckie is in such exquisite control of the stuntwriting here, it's just, I finished this and wandered around saying "Damn. Just damn," for a while. This is my favorite of her books so far, hands down.
I'm not really saying what this is about, am I? Um. It's about a very clever trans man accompanying his superior to the city to undertake a complicated magical inheritance, and plots, and international relations, and oh yeah the wars of gods who make things true by speaking them, so they'd better be damned sure they have the power to back up their words. Also a rock. I fuckin' love that rock.