nekokat reviewed The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
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2 stars
I feel like I should've liked this more, I mean it's an homage to NYC with a side of Lovecraft thrown in, but it just kinda... felt like the gimmick didn't carry it for the length of a novel. And most of it was petty infighting between allies which is just kind of annoying, and like "lol fuck Staten Island" like okay as someone who has lived in NYC I get it, but also I don't really need it explained to me that it's the cultural differences that make it work, like... I dunnnnno