![]() She is fighting the good fight in every way, doing her part with her art to eliminate the evils of corporatism, white supremacy, colonialism, gentrification, xenophobia, and apathy, and I am here for it. But I will still eagerly await the rest of this new trilogy, and I remain intensely grateful that Jemisin is here to bring some much-needed, vital new energy and ideas to the venerable SFF field. soon became a nightmare, but not anymore, I have someone I think I love. ![]() ![]() I will say that as entertained by this novel as I was, I never fell fully in love with it as I did with her masterpiece, The Broken Earth Trilogy. Natasha Anders (Goodreads Author) (shelved 5 times as unwanted-wife) avg rating. ![]() I wonder what people who’ve never been here or lived here would make of this novel, but I can tell you that it rings extremely true in its depiction of what makes this city what it is. I love New York, I love living in New York, and I always have, but I also recognize it’s a tough, messy, problematic place in many ways, and Jemisin also manages to honor all of those facets here. Lovecraft, and stereotypes of what New Yorkers are like Jemisin filters them all through her abundantly humane, fiercely progressive, and joyfully propulsive prose. Tropes surrounding the superhero origin story, the diverse fellowship of strangers joining together to defeat an Enemy story, the mythology of H.P. Jemisin riff on many tropes of popular speculative entertainment in increasingly fun ways. This is a wild ride, and reading it I felt the exhilaration of watching the incredibly talented N.K. ![]()
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