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Paolo Bacigalupi: The Tangled Lands (2018) 4 stars

"A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of …

So Bleak. Slog.

2 stars

I did NOT enjoy this. There is some interesting world building, but it kind of stops developing for the second half of the book. Everything is so droll and dark and hopeless and bleak. The characters are mostly awful, the people are mostly awful, so bleak.

There's some interesting allegory for climate change, but again, just kind of doesn't develop for the second half of the book.