Kibrika reviewed Skeen's Leap (The Skeen Trilogy Book 1) by Jo Clayton
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Soo... I took 2 years to read an ebook. It felt a bit hard to get into because it uses a lot of imagined things all at once and makes me try to infer what they are from context. Might be it's using language or references I'm unfamiliar with for those things, but regardless, made me work to understand what's going on.
There is pretty sudden quite trigger-warning-worthy content in the book that appeared after I felt like the book had established itself as an adventure type thing. A flashback to a rapist abusive caretaker uncle. I explained it away as that might be how trauma is, that it's not in ones day-to-day until it all of a sudden intrudes. But I'm not sure it's enough of an explanation.
The book kind of enticed me along with this one question that's established at the very beginning - why did Tibo …
Soo... I took 2 years to read an ebook. It felt a bit hard to get into because it uses a lot of imagined things all at once and makes me try to infer what they are from context. Might be it's using language or references I'm unfamiliar with for those things, but regardless, made me work to understand what's going on.
There is pretty sudden quite trigger-warning-worthy content in the book that appeared after I felt like the book had established itself as an adventure type thing. A flashback to a rapist abusive caretaker uncle. I explained it away as that might be how trauma is, that it's not in ones day-to-day until it all of a sudden intrudes. But I'm not sure it's enough of an explanation.
The book kind of enticed me along with this one question that's established at the very beginning - why did Tibo leave her? And the question is obviously not answered, because how would it be a trilogy otherwise. And I explained this away too: it motivates this character regardless of whether she ends up finding out the answer. And I'm enjoying following her even if I don't see the end of her quest.
I like that Skeen is supposed to be older than me. But in retrospect I'm not sure that it shows much in how she thinks about the world.
I really like that this book had problems that are different from the problems of being overly simplistic and dramatic, but it leaves me with the feeling that it might actually be, just that it hid it with weird things I'm not used to (like reading and not listening to the book).
