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Slow to start, with a few main characters who are annoying in their naiveté and two warring societies are that equally dystopian in their own way, but it builds to a good twist ending I didn't even see coming. Also some great non-binary, bi/pan, and disabled representation. I am definitely interested to find out what comes next.
A science fiction retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo.
The last 30 pages of this are amazing, too bad you have to slog through so much misogyny, assault, racism, etc. to get there. An interesting contrast to the Terra Ignota series I just finished.
Ada Palmer: Will to Battle (2017, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for …
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, …
Beautiful prose and diversity, but ultimately I was expecting more "new" content in this close retelling of The Great Gatsby
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never …
