[books] Last First Snow, by Max Gladstone
Jul. 31st, 2015 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettWell honestly less about LFS and more about the various links I've been following having just finished it - THE NEXT BOOK IS GOING TO BE BACK IN ALT COLOUMB (though I really want more about Mal and Caleb, augh, why is it that I am so invested in more about those two, oh right it's because the books are about the tension between integrity and human relationships and the ways the world runs on contracts built of Craft). But also here's Max Gladstone talking about LFS at SFSignal (spoilers! -- but also note that Max, in that article, once again uses "she" as the generic and default pronoun just as he does in the books, in stark contrast to that review at Tor), and oh but I have feelings.
I managed to be completely unspoiled for it, so though I was delighted to see Temoc and Elayne it wasn't until Caleb showed up aged about 10 that I suddenly went ... oh shit about what it was going to be about. So that was a nice emotional punch.
And it's a book about memory, and who writes history, and how history happens, and about integrity and choices and truth, about how we tell stories that define us, and -- yes yes yes yes yes I continue to absolutely bloody adore this author yes.
I managed to be completely unspoiled for it, so though I was delighted to see Temoc and Elayne it wasn't until Caleb showed up aged about 10 that I suddenly went ... oh shit about what it was going to be about. So that was a nice emotional punch.
And it's a book about memory, and who writes history, and how history happens, and about integrity and choices and truth, about how we tell stories that define us, and -- yes yes yes yes yes I continue to absolutely bloody adore this author yes.
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Date: 2015-07-31 03:56 pm (UTC)