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This book is really badass so far

I'd already been planning on reading this book for a while (I love a fairytale retelling, if it's done right). Then I watched the movie The Company of Wolves and it was the exact story I needed at that moment. Without going into detail, it really helped go through and get over some stuff. So I wanted to read the book even more. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm going through it in order, saving the wolf-stories that I adored so much in the film version for last.

@finktank@books.idas.social They're really, really good! I wish he'd write another full size novel or novella, but I haven't heard anything about his writing in a while.

@finktank@books.idas.social A taste of honey is even better imo, so look forward to that! He also some free short stories on reactormag.com, if you haven't checked those out already :)

Brilliant, powerful fantasy story. Will look for more from thie author. More than my preferred amount of physical descriptions of violence.

Review to follow

@betty@bookwyrm.social Sounds really interesting! I'll keep an eye out for it.

Okay, I'm about halfway through this book, and I feel I can already say: that Hugo was deserved. It is very good. I do still hope to find out why Jemisin decided to write Essun's chapters in second person. That's such an uncommon voice, I feel like it has to have a purpose.

As an American, this was a fascinating and educational read. It fills in the blanks left by our myopic media and provides context to events that were quite mysterious and unexpected at the time that I was living through them.

To have finished the book, which closes describing scenes in Moscow in December 2011, when Alexei Navalny was leading hopeful protests against the Putin regime, on the same day that the news of Navalny's death in prison reached me, seems cruel, but entirely fitting. In these passages, Gessen notes that Putin and his allies were slow to recognize the danger they were in, and predicted that when they did, they would lash out violently, like a cornered animal. Perhaps with a terrorist attack, like the ones the KGB engineered against the Russian people in 1999 - 2000, when Putin was first running for president. But no. Putin started a war.

Now I finally never have to worry about getting spoiled for this book again!