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Hello, NK Jemisin is a freaking genius. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
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“Love can level the ground between mortals & gods, Yeine. It’s something we’ve learned to respect.”
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“Love can level the ground between mortals & gods, Yeine. It’s something we’ve learned to respect.”
I took a while to warm up to this book. The gods-as-people story has been done, redone, and done again. I wasn't sure this book would have anything new to say. (One could possibly say the same thing about dragon books, but why would one? Dragons are fun no matter how many times you've already met them.) The woman-of-destiny who shows up and immediately has all the male characters in love with her has also been done. But Jemisin brought a fresh perspective to the kind of psychological dramas god
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Dark story, twisted narrative, heroine occasionally teetered at the edge of passive, but never tipped.
I wrote a longer review for the RART blog: http://iowareadersadvisory.blogspot.c... ...more
I wrote a longer review for the RART blog: http://iowareadersadvisory.blogspot.c... ...more
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