The general idea of the plot is basically: what if those disposable minor characters you so frequently see in science fiction start to compare notes and ask questions? Tell me that’s not intriguing as hell. I read the blurb and that, together with the name attached, had me caught. This book caught my eye in the bookstore the other day. Last year I read The Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and I thought it was such a novel concept. Gah, there are so many books I want to read and so few eyeballs to do so with. I wrote Andy Weir as Andy Weird at first… I bought my copy of this last week and it’s taunting me from the shelf. I have a feeling this will be my favorite literary fiction of February.
I get choked up reading about queers in the olden times because it makes me so sad that the world was once like that, and in some ways still is. I expected no-nonsense prose without much poetry, it’s pretty poetic. And the writing is considerably more beautiful than I expected. It’s certainly an interesting concept I can’t remember the last time I saw death and suffering be written about like this.
I already started this a little (about ten pages in) and so far… it’s weird. My curiosity is tickled and I enjoy the way Lee writes, with a touch of lyricism. I’m currently 10 pages in, getting to know the characters, and so far so good. I feel like everyone has been, and is still, raving about this book and the rest of the Green Bone saga and I want to see what the fuss is about. Alas, there are two books from last month’s TBR which I didn’t manage to read and which I’m not planning to read this month, but I hope to get to if I have the time: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. First off, I’ll be carrying over the book I’m currently reading, Jade City by Fonda Lee, as well as one more book, My Policeman by Bethan Roberts, from my January TBR. Alright, so I’m going to try to plan a less ambitious amount of books than I did for January (I had planned to read more than ten books and ended up reading eight).