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sophia_sol) wrote2021-06-14 10:13 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2021-06-14 10:13 pm
Come Tumbling Down, by Seanan McGuire
I have read enough Seanan McGuire by this point in my life to know perfectly well that she's not to my taste, but she keeps showing up in the hugos, and so I keep reading her out of a sense of duty, and thus keep writing negative reviews of her books. Sigh. Her books clearly speak to a lot of people, and that's great! But I am just not one of them. Her sensibilities and mine do not jive. We have different priorities.
All of which is to say that I did not have high hopes coming into Come Tumbling Down, the latest in the Wayward Children series, and I was right in my expectations for how well it would work for me.
I actually didn't have much to argue with thematically in this one; unlike the last Wayward Children I read, I thought the ending appropriate to the story being told. But the overall vibe of the book was "vaguely creepy atmospheric set pieces interspersed with the author moralizing to the reader," plus too many viewpoint characters whose viewpoint didn't seem important to the points being made. Which doesn't provide a lot for me to get attached to or interested in!
So yeah. This book: not for me, yet again. But I knew that. Maybe in future hugo years I will give myself the gift of not bothering to read any Seanan McGuire books that show up on the list of finalists. Reading her books doesn't work for me, and I don't think continuing a series of reviews saying "nope didn't like this one either" is actually helpful to anyone!
All of which is to say that I did not have high hopes coming into Come Tumbling Down, the latest in the Wayward Children series, and I was right in my expectations for how well it would work for me.
I actually didn't have much to argue with thematically in this one; unlike the last Wayward Children I read, I thought the ending appropriate to the story being told. But the overall vibe of the book was "vaguely creepy atmospheric set pieces interspersed with the author moralizing to the reader," plus too many viewpoint characters whose viewpoint didn't seem important to the points being made. Which doesn't provide a lot for me to get attached to or interested in!
So yeah. This book: not for me, yet again. But I knew that. Maybe in future hugo years I will give myself the gift of not bothering to read any Seanan McGuire books that show up on the list of finalists. Reading her books doesn't work for me, and I don't think continuing a series of reviews saying "nope didn't like this one either" is actually helpful to anyone!