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Just a DEIA girl yearning for a post-patriarchal world.
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This book was SO GOOD. I finished it and just hugged the book to my chest for a few minutes. I'm trying to coax more friends to read it asap so they'll understand what I feel when I say "with meeeeeee"...
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While this book is a standalone, there is a minor but cute reference to the author's Singing Hills Cycle series.
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YES
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/excited screech
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But it's richly written, the story is enjoyable, Lucy is a clever and funny and lovable character. The audiobook is 18 hours long, but it has that gothic hauntingly beautiful slow pace. The end isn't the point, the journey is just as important.
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The book is not subtle. The plot telegraphs its turns and reveals in advance, the themes are strong and in your face, the author leaves no confusion about her opinions (including a section where she clearly establishes that transwomen **are** women and her feminism recognizes that).
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The plot is composed of three timelines: Lucy's journals from when she was human, transcripts from Lucy telling a therapist about her unlife, and a current-day woman named Iris trying to escape her family's corrupt MLM cult. They all weave together marvelously to tell a long but excellent story.
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I went into this book nearly completely blind, based solely on the recommendation of a couple authors I follow on social media, and that was an excellent decision.
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Absolutely marvelous taste.
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There's four people in line for the ebook, too!
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Just put a hold on the audiobook via Libby. I'm ninth in line!
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Amazing photo
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Big content warning for an abusive relationship as well as dubcon bordering on noncon (our protagonist can't really consent most of the time and even her libido is controlled by a setting, so... )
Like the abusive relationship aspects are so spot on that I was ON EDGE right there with Annie.
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Yesssss read it and then talk with me about it.
I tried reading reviews on Storygraph but the people in them had missed a detail or two that I'd clocked and so I don't know if I can trust their conclusions.
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*writhing, not writing. Derp.
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I'd pre-ordered but it's still listed as backordered on bookshop.org and I am writing with impatience. So excited to read it as soon as I get can my hands on it!
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What has OP been reading to make them think current SFF is hyper sanitized? I thought the common criticism was that popular SFF is too horny, and that's why everyone is mad at spice cabinets.
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I can appreciate you're willing to do that work, but how do you balance that with being safe to other people, though? When the bigotry is so severe and harmful, how do you maintain a safe and comfortable place for the targets of that hatred while also allowing their aggressors into your spaces?
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This may be true if the focus is on redeeming that individual person, as opposed to protecting people that are in direct risk of losing basic human rights or worse.
On a systemic level, we need to send a general message that bigotry won't be tolerated and won't be allowed to succeed.
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My only quibble is the ending; I don't think the mystery got pulled together as neatly as it needed. It was just as creepily atmospheric, but... I'm left with too much uncertainty about what truly happened. I might give it another read in physical format and see if I can suss out better answers.
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How stressful, I'm so sorry. Hope that she's doing ok?
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No on the kindle for ethics reasons, but I'd love to check out your other e-reader!