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lightreads) wrote2019-11-18 07:43 pm
lightreads) wrote2019-11-18 07:43 pm
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Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Otherbound
3+/5. A boy in our world sees through the eyes of a mute servant girl in a fantasy kingdom whenever he closes his eyes. She is on the run with a lost princess, and he is dealing with a lot of family and life stuff.
The plus sign is for all the potential here. This is a smart, thoughtful, emotionally rich book about multiple disabled characters existing complexly together, and a fraught f/f romance, and a story of power and the price of displacing pain onto others. But it's just that little bit underbaked in a way that badly makes me want the author's third or fourth book, because I think that one is going to be great.
Content notes: Violence, self-harm.
3+/5. A boy in our world sees through the eyes of a mute servant girl in a fantasy kingdom whenever he closes his eyes. She is on the run with a lost princess, and he is dealing with a lot of family and life stuff.
The plus sign is for all the potential here. This is a smart, thoughtful, emotionally rich book about multiple disabled characters existing complexly together, and a fraught f/f romance, and a story of power and the price of displacing pain onto others. But it's just that little bit underbaked in a way that badly makes me want the author's third or fourth book, because I think that one is going to be great.
Content notes: Violence, self-harm.