A review by ranaldclouston
Mordew by Alex Pheby

3.0

FinishedReading book 1 of Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy, picked up on a random recommendation through Mastodon. This New Weird Fantasy of baroque metaphysics and bizarre worldbuilding sometimes reads more like a dark grisly fairy tale or myth than a conventional novel. It is a bit unsatisfying how passive the protagonist is, mostly following the (sometimes magical) orders of others rather than driving the narrative. Highly memorable