hardcover, 240 pages
Published Feb. 16, 2021 by Pantheon.
Something's rotten in paradise.
Karin Tidbeck weaves a complicated web stretching across multiple worlds, histories, folk tales and broken utopian dreams that ultimately deals with evil and the power of stories to fight it.
It's interesting to read a sci-fi author from a different culture that also has her own way of interpreting the multiverse and the power of story and imagination.
Good. A grim fairy tale, bloody and phantasmagorical.
I enjoyed this quite a bit! It feels like a mashup of Scandinavian folklore with Time Bandits. Be prepared for some of the darker, bloodier aspects of both of those...
Such a weird book. Also lovely and sad. I think in need time to know what more to say about it.
This book is solidly in the it was okay category. I have a hard time articulating why this book didn't resonate with me when it had all the classic elements of multiverse, fantasy and being a bit out there.
I was waiting for a reveal that this story was an allegory or reaction to the in-world war happening, but even if it was I'm not sure that would have changed my mind.
