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4/5. Concluding two volumes of this fantasy quadrology about truth and reconciliation and the hard work of peacemaking.
Ah. The sorts of books that you finish, and sigh, and just sit for a few minutes in the afterglow. I've been waiting to read these books for many many years, first because it took her many many years to finish the last book (she suffered a very serious injury, apparently) and then because it took even longer to get them in an accessible format. But that's okay. The first of these books was published in 2002 in all its gentle, hopeful, kind, complicated, queer poly glory. Back when gentle hopeful books were more common, but queer poly ones really weren't. So there's something fitting about the last of them, redemptive and hopeful and anti-violent and still queer and still poly, being published in 2019. When Queer poly books were somewhat more common, but redemptive hope was not.
What are they about? Oh, you know. How to be a philosopher instead of a soldier. How to construct peace out of the ashes of decades of violence. How to snatch a thread of hope out of the wreck of the past. The sort of magic whose rules are never really explained to you, but that makes beautiful, intuitive sense as it unfolds. You know, the little stuff. Also, they are quite funny in places.
Content notes: Recollections of war crimes and death. Child endangerment.
4/5. Concluding two volumes of this fantasy quadrology about truth and reconciliation and the hard work of peacemaking.
Ah. The sorts of books that you finish, and sigh, and just sit for a few minutes in the afterglow. I've been waiting to read these books for many many years, first because it took her many many years to finish the last book (she suffered a very serious injury, apparently) and then because it took even longer to get them in an accessible format. But that's okay. The first of these books was published in 2002 in all its gentle, hopeful, kind, complicated, queer poly glory. Back when gentle hopeful books were more common, but queer poly ones really weren't. So there's something fitting about the last of them, redemptive and hopeful and anti-violent and still queer and still poly, being published in 2019. When Queer poly books were somewhat more common, but redemptive hope was not.
What are they about? Oh, you know. How to be a philosopher instead of a soldier. How to construct peace out of the ashes of decades of violence. How to snatch a thread of hope out of the wreck of the past. The sort of magic whose rules are never really explained to you, but that makes beautiful, intuitive sense as it unfolds. You know, the little stuff. Also, they are quite funny in places.
Content notes: Recollections of war crimes and death. Child endangerment.
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Date: 2021-04-25 12:39 pm (UTC)I'm so glad the series was finished and satisfyingly. I look forward to having the brain to read from the start, as I have basically no memory of the first two.