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They didn’t understand that a creature like you, who had constructed such a fantasy of his ideal woman, wouldn’t even want a real one.
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Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
oof, rape scene in the first chapter
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
A girl and a god, alone in communion.
enne📚 reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
Luminous
4 stars
A messy but enjoyable book about robots, grief, and memory set in a post-war unified Korea.
The plot, pacing, and characters meandered a bit too much for my taste, but it was made up for by the texture in the world and its threads of philosophy. I do also love a story that is engaging with both disability and transness through the lens of robots and robotics.
enne📚 quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
The robot understands that how we love isn’t divine. It is meager, selfish, exquisitely cruel. Think of any time a war erupts—who among us would not sacrifice the lives of many to save the one person we love?
— Luminous by Silvia Park
enne📚 quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
Like robots, grief came with a bewildering manual.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
Tak! reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
5 stars
Luminous: 100/100
Luminous is a book about death, loss, and self-loathing, told via the universal medium of robots.
I love the way the connections between the lives of the different characters are gradually revealed as the story unfolds. I also really appreciate the complexity and depth of the characters, even when they seen stereotypical seen from one angle.
The author wrote in the acknowledgements that she started out to write a children's book and kind of got derailed by personal circumstances into this thing that is much darker and more complex, but I'm very glad she did, Luminous is extremely good.
Luminous: 100/100
Luminous is a book about death, loss, and self-loathing, told via the universal medium of robots.
I love the way the connections between the lives of the different characters are gradually revealed as the story unfolds. I also really appreciate the complexity and depth of the characters, even when they seen stereotypical seen from one angle.
The author wrote in the acknowledgements that she started out to write a children's book and kind of got derailed by personal circumstances into this thing that is much darker and more complex, but I'm very glad she did, Luminous is extremely good.
Tak! quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
I have many names and many selves, and more ghosts than anyone.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
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Tak! reviewed Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
2 stars
I picked this one up because it was from an old #SFFBookClub I didn't join for some reason. There's some interesting stuff here, but the whole narrative is very shooty-oorah in a way I found offputting.
I picked this one up because it was from an old #SFFBookClub I didn't join for some reason. There's some interesting stuff here, but the whole narrative is very shooty-oorah in a way I found offputting.
Content warning the navigating fox plot discussion / spoilers
@[email protected] Reading between the lines, my conclusions were: Quintus was (probably) made by Toosa who taught Quintus about the roads, since multiverse Toosa is there right at Quintus's first moments of self-consciousness. I think it's possible that Quintus was traveling the roads prior to meeting Toosa as well. Toosa also made Cynthia promise to save Quintus (which happens off-page, right?), which also makes me feel like Toosa was in the know about the future (which lines up with the old/young Toosa appearance earlier). Maybe I'd guess that the "why" of Quintus was something around sabotaging the resurrection plan to thwart the incursion of the empire somewhat? That's what I got.
Tak! commented on The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
Content warning the navigating fox plot discussion / spoilers
I respect that so many things were left ambiguous: Quintus's origin, what's happening with the Empress, how did Quintus and Cynthia's crew come to their understanding, etc. - but maybe some of them could have been resolved? just one?
Tak! reviewed The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
5 stars
Whew, the ending felt so sudden I think I hurt something.
The Navigating Fox is like a thousand-page fantasy epic crammed into 150 pages. It's super well written, and the setting is great and I want more, particularly the Northern Membership - although I could stand to go a few days without reading the word "knowledgeable". Now give me the thousand-page edition. 😀
Whew, the ending felt so sudden I think I hurt something.
The Navigating Fox is like a thousand-page fantasy epic crammed into 150 pages. It's super well written, and the setting is great and I want more, particularly the Northern Membership - although I could stand to go a few days without reading the word "knowledgeable". Now give me the thousand-page edition. 😀
enne📚 quoted The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
"I am curious as to how one ends a concept," she replied.
Scipio Aemilanus was standing next to the little fire of dried dung some humans of the Membership had built. Shadows and light played across his features.
"By force," he said.
enne📚 reviewed The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
The Navigating Fox
4 stars
The Navigating Fox is a novella that feels like a piece of a larger novel that's been extracted, loose threads and all. Or, maybe it's just uninterested in filling in all the details and giving explicit answers. I wish this story had been a novel to give it space to stretch its wings.
The best part of this book is all of the worldbuilding details. I love the idea of animals that have been given voices and are now knowledgeable (and self-conscious). I love the various societies and their interactions with an overseas empire that has started extending into the land of this novella. I loved the ideas of how a society that treats animals as people would need to operate. There's just so much going on here in the margins of this book over a core parallel telling of two journeys.
One thing my partner always says …
The Navigating Fox is a novella that feels like a piece of a larger novel that's been extracted, loose threads and all. Or, maybe it's just uninterested in filling in all the details and giving explicit answers. I wish this story had been a novel to give it space to stretch its wings.
The best part of this book is all of the worldbuilding details. I love the idea of animals that have been given voices and are now knowledgeable (and self-conscious). I love the various societies and their interactions with an overseas empire that has started extending into the land of this novella. I loved the ideas of how a society that treats animals as people would need to operate. There's just so much going on here in the margins of this book over a core parallel telling of two journeys.
One thing my partner always says about writing is that he doesn't need every detail spelled out, but he has to believe that the author knows these things. This is all to say that this not a book to read for a strong sense of closure, even if you can read between some lines. It feels coherent overall to me, but with a lot more loose threads than I had expected going in.
enne📚 quoted The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
A faraway look came to the wiry man's eyes. "My most important role, good navigator, is to march to the entryway to the underworld, close the gates of Hell, and end death forever."
So, this time, he was to accompany me. This time he wanted me to take him to Hell.