The Rainbow

tronicdude reviewed The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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5 stars

Fuck me up fam this shit heavy

Sean Gursky reviewed The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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2 stars

Quick read and it was okay. Will see how necessary it is after Book of Ancestor #3 and if the thread bonding is a significant detail and if it becomes an essential detail.

I will reserve judgement until I have finished Ancestor #3 but focusing on a side character that is presently in the story or even set it a few years earlier and have it be about Zole or Yisht could have made for a really interesting novella...but I'll wait until I'm done the series before considering alternatives.

matt reviewed The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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5 stars

A perfect little amuse bouche for Holy Sister.

TimMason reviewed The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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2 stars

YA spin-offs centred on kissing seems to be a thing. I read this as a tongue in cheek parody of the genre. It puts me in mind of the anthropologist whose young wife fled from his hut back to Papa, terrified by what appeared to her to be a cannibalistic vampire attack. Kissing is an unnatural and potentially dangerous pleasure. No wonder Nona is confused and bewildered.

Lawrence writes well, and moves his tale along: this is a very short story. It doesn't have the depth that he achieves in the full novels; even though we feel we know the characters quite well by now, they seem little more than sketchy ciphers in this outing. Even the Big Fight is somewhat perfunctory; one of the weaknesses of fantasy is what I think of as the Stormbringer trope: when Elric waves the big magical blade around, enemies fall like summer midges …

YA spin-offs centred on kissing seems to be a thing. I read this as a tongue in cheek parody of the genre. It puts me in mind of the anthropologist whose young wife fled from his hut back to Papa, terrified by what appeared to her to be a cannibalistic vampire attack. Kissing is an unnatural and potentially dangerous pleasure. No wonder Nona is confused and bewildered.

Lawrence writes well, and moves his tale along: this is a very short story. It doesn't have the depth that he achieves in the full novels; even though we feel we know the characters quite well by now, they seem little more than sketchy ciphers in this outing. Even the Big Fight is somewhat perfunctory; one of the weaknesses of fantasy is what I think of as the Stormbringer trope: when Elric waves the big magical blade around, enemies fall like summer midges zapped by a cloud of DDT.

A light affair to keep us going until the main dish is delivered.