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[minxy]

Hello Friday,

I have just come to the end of a long, and fruitful, and massively exhausting week. I am eating chocolate and red wine for dinner. I am curled up on the couch under my grandmother's afgan and I am warm.

I am reading N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, four chapters in at a gulp (it arrived today.)

It is glorious so far.

You can read the first three chapters yourself here.

ETA: I finished the novel and promptly started talking about it in the comments. So, beware spoilers there.

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[minxy]

My goodness.

my favorite parts were, perhaps, that the experience of being overwelmed (and competent) and out of one's element (but with some power to change things) translated in tone and experience to the reader. I never felt so discombobulated that I couldn't continue, though. I mean, I finished that book inside of 24 hours, so obviously I never stopped reading.

I thought the creator/destroyer/maintainer trio was fantastic. As was the idea that the creator might be an entity that herself died and was reborn in a different form.

I never expected that twists at the end, and yet they continue to resonate in retrospect. The doling out of information was masterfully done. Between Viraine and the inheritance actually inherited, the earlier surprise of Kinneth's choices and finding out the machinations that brought them about. Yes. Fantastic.

Wow. I'm so curious about the second book now. I have to say the first was very satisfying on first impression, though.