sophia_sol: photo of a 19th century ivory carving of a fat bird (Default)
I've loved the two novels by Nalo Hopkinson I read, so I was really looking forward to this short story collection of hers, but it turns out I guess her short fiction doesn't work for me :( Some of the stories were more interesting to me than others, but none of them were stories that I completely liked, and a number of them I did not at all like.

My experience of her novels thus far is that it took me a while to get into them but once I was there I was very invested. Perhaps it's just that in short story form there isn't enough time for me to get into each new set of Hopkinson's characters and worlds, before it's over. Too bad!
sophia_sol: photo of a 19th century ivory carving of a fat bird (Default)
Aww yeah secondary-world sf with interesting worldbuilding and a female main character, OBVIOUSLY I am there. Also I continue to love how Hopkinson writes.

I'm not sure what else to say about this book; I don't really feel competent to review it? It's really good but also really emotionally intense. I loved the worldbuilding, and found the content of the book to be good but upsetting - it deals with issues of sexual abuse and generally terrible parenting, so you know, approach with caution if those are topics you'd have trouble reading about.

And now that I've read two Nalo Hopkinson books, I'm pretty sure I need to read everything else she's ever written because she's so GOOD. But I also think that I'll need to space them out because she doesn't flinch from dealing with really serious issues face-on and I don't think I can handle a lot of that in quick succession.
sophia_sol: photo of a 19th century ivory carving of a fat bird (Default)
What a great book!

I had trouble getting into it at first, because it is a dystopian urban fantasy - a genre that doesn't appeal to me - that opens with spoilers I guess! )

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