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beccaelizabethAntimony Price, youngest sister, has to deal with the consequences of her elders actions, by going undercover, while already having an identity crisis. Layers of secrets unravel and the stakes are life and death on a large scale.
Also there's the creepiest not a Watcher not a love interest. Like, if you were into the whole genocidal kill all the monsters approach he'd probably seem like a nice clean cut young man, and he sells books and does research, and all his peers are lining up to try and date him, and he doesn't see anything wrong with any part of his life, and his absolute conviction that of course Antimony will feel the same way is the most shudder inducing thing. Like if a white supremacist was so absolutely certain you'll help him with the lynch mob. Makes the slimiest feel. And of course there's guys who are so sure of their politics or desirability they'd be that sure you'll come around. And ugh.
Well written.
And the bit where the long lost relatives were kind of trying to get her back was very Seanan. "they're never going to love you the way we will. At least in part because they're all going to be dead before morning." As emotional appeals go it lacks a certain something, but you can't fault the logic.
The dude who turns out to be a really big monkey was a much better dating prospect.
But then Antimony was not a great partner to him.
There's lots of layers about family and identity, who you are born to and grow up with, who you are trained to be, things you discover about yourself that just blow away all the existing plans, trying to cope with changes, and stuff about being mixed race or cut off from your relatives culture. Just with shapeshifters and superpowers and characters who reference x-men and spiderman because they're really personally meaningful.
And all the plot pieces came together in a pretty satisfying climax.
I'm a bit puzzled by the mice. They go to get intelligence and find a lost colony of mice has been remembering what the bad guys are doing. Soooo wouldn't a really high priority be to get some of those memories back to the main colony? But maybe what they were doing was that, in mouse logic, like make new mice to send home.
I stayed up until midnight trying to read this all in one go, despite my sleep cycle currently thinking 0500 is a luxurious lie in. And then I read it all morning. It's a good involving read.
If you liked the others in the series then Antimony's anger towards their point of view characters might be a bit of a speed bump to liking her, but she seems plenty logical to me.
I liked this.
Also there's the creepiest not a Watcher not a love interest. Like, if you were into the whole genocidal kill all the monsters approach he'd probably seem like a nice clean cut young man, and he sells books and does research, and all his peers are lining up to try and date him, and he doesn't see anything wrong with any part of his life, and his absolute conviction that of course Antimony will feel the same way is the most shudder inducing thing. Like if a white supremacist was so absolutely certain you'll help him with the lynch mob. Makes the slimiest feel. And of course there's guys who are so sure of their politics or desirability they'd be that sure you'll come around. And ugh.
Well written.
And the bit where the long lost relatives were kind of trying to get her back was very Seanan. "they're never going to love you the way we will. At least in part because they're all going to be dead before morning." As emotional appeals go it lacks a certain something, but you can't fault the logic.
The dude who turns out to be a really big monkey was a much better dating prospect.
But then Antimony was not a great partner to him.
There's lots of layers about family and identity, who you are born to and grow up with, who you are trained to be, things you discover about yourself that just blow away all the existing plans, trying to cope with changes, and stuff about being mixed race or cut off from your relatives culture. Just with shapeshifters and superpowers and characters who reference x-men and spiderman because they're really personally meaningful.
And all the plot pieces came together in a pretty satisfying climax.
I'm a bit puzzled by the mice. They go to get intelligence and find a lost colony of mice has been remembering what the bad guys are doing. Soooo wouldn't a really high priority be to get some of those memories back to the main colony? But maybe what they were doing was that, in mouse logic, like make new mice to send home.
I stayed up until midnight trying to read this all in one go, despite my sleep cycle currently thinking 0500 is a luxurious lie in. And then I read it all morning. It's a good involving read.
If you liked the others in the series then Antimony's anger towards their point of view characters might be a bit of a speed bump to liking her, but she seems plenty logical to me.
I liked this.
The mice!
Date: 2017-05-23 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-23 06:44 pm (UTC)I think that Mindy's priority is to be Antimony's blackbox, because she's the only one from the colony that has been allowed to go with her. Mork is a nice bonus, but Mindy is one of Antimony's clergy, so her first duty is to her.