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News + OMFG "The Raven Tower"
Mar. 15th, 2019 07:40 pmI haven't been posting here because I've mostly been reading my flist from my phone and that is not conducive to posting. And also, I may have bitten myself off more than I can chew (and possibly been more than a little pretentious) with the way I was doing book reviews. Oops. There went my ability to write posts. *shrug*
That said, I've been reading lots and sometimes I still want to tell people about what I'm reading. I'm going to try a few things and see what sticks...
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Book: The Raven Tower
Review:
OMFG the main subject character (Eolo) is canon NON-BINARY/TRANS and canon BI!
Also, there are other trans characters and trans aware characters referenced in the story such that THEY ORGANICALLY FIT IN THE FANTASY WORLD IN A WAY THAT IS INTEGRATED INTO THE STORY AND THE WORLD, AND NOT SPECIFICALLY AS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE PLOT!!!!!
Ann Leckie was already one of my favourite authors and I really appreciate this as an agender person. Nobody told me there was a non-binary/trans main character in the book. I was reading it because it is an Ann Leckie book. So this came as a wonderful surprise on page 4. The worldbuilding overall is interesting and likely based on Roman era earth somewhere around scandinavia (by my guess, somebody with more history/geography can correct me).
"The Raven Tower" is a story about revenge. It is narrated by a god (a stone) who is telling a common soldier a story about the god's past and the soldier's present life. It's an odd format (second person) for presenting the story and the format keeps the action from being heart pounding, but I think this isn't meant to be a on-the-edge-of-your-seat kinda book. It is more of a steady unfolding of a puzzle. The satisfaction isn't in figuring out the twist, but rather in its march of consequences towards its inevitable end. It's probably a book for people who like schadenfreude, because there is a lot of it. Most of it well deserved.
That said, I've been reading lots and sometimes I still want to tell people about what I'm reading. I'm going to try a few things and see what sticks...
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Book: The Raven Tower
Review:
OMFG the main subject character (Eolo) is canon NON-BINARY/TRANS and canon BI!
Also, there are other trans characters and trans aware characters referenced in the story such that THEY ORGANICALLY FIT IN THE FANTASY WORLD IN A WAY THAT IS INTEGRATED INTO THE STORY AND THE WORLD, AND NOT SPECIFICALLY AS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE PLOT!!!!!
Ann Leckie was already one of my favourite authors and I really appreciate this as an agender person. Nobody told me there was a non-binary/trans main character in the book. I was reading it because it is an Ann Leckie book. So this came as a wonderful surprise on page 4. The worldbuilding overall is interesting and likely based on Roman era earth somewhere around scandinavia (by my guess, somebody with more history/geography can correct me).
"The Raven Tower" is a story about revenge. It is narrated by a god (a stone) who is telling a common soldier a story about the god's past and the soldier's present life. It's an odd format (second person) for presenting the story and the format keeps the action from being heart pounding, but I think this isn't meant to be a on-the-edge-of-your-seat kinda book. It is more of a steady unfolding of a puzzle. The satisfaction isn't in figuring out the twist, but rather in its march of consequences towards its inevitable end. It's probably a book for people who like schadenfreude, because there is a lot of it. Most of it well deserved.
