On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs
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lightreadsOn Vicious Worlds
4/5. Impossible to talk about as it’s the sequel to an extremely twisty scifi. More intense identity drama, more danger for a remnant population attempting to escape the grasping reach of an authoritarian government, more opera in the space opera.
I continue to really like this, and to think it’s not going to be for all tastes. It’s going to be too dramatic for some. But I remain impressed that these books have managed to pack this much subversive queer longing into a queer-norm universe. How did she do that? It would be spoilers to say, but yeah, she sure did.
Content notes: Violence, discussion of past genocide, off-page torture.
4/5. Impossible to talk about as it’s the sequel to an extremely twisty scifi. More intense identity drama, more danger for a remnant population attempting to escape the grasping reach of an authoritarian government, more opera in the space opera.
I continue to really like this, and to think it’s not going to be for all tastes. It’s going to be too dramatic for some. But I remain impressed that these books have managed to pack this much subversive queer longing into a queer-norm universe. How did she do that? It would be spoilers to say, but yeah, she sure did.
Content notes: Violence, discussion of past genocide, off-page torture.