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was overhyped :(

3 stars

I found the writing…fine, the worldbuilding unsatisfying (none of these kids ever picked up a newspaper?), and the plot slightly contrived. A good book! and still very touching! but one that I had expected more from based on everything I’d heard about it

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (EBook, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

4.9/5

4 stars

I’ve heard people call Ruthanna Emrys is an inheritor of Le Guin’s legacy, but Octavia Butler is all over this book; a kinder future than Parable of the Sower, with (usually) kinder aliens than Xenogenesis. Speaks to my anarchist heartstrings. Only 4/5 and not 5 because I found the corporate society immersion-breaking-ly gimmicky, but besides that a beautiful, rich, hopeful picture of the future.