A review by bentgaidin
The Edda of Burdens Trilogy: All the Windwracked Stars, By the Mountain Bound, Sea Thy Mistress by Elizabeth Bear

4.0

I reread this because of the new ebook omnibus edition, and this is still a powerful and poetic novel. I feel like there might be something interesting in a comparison of this to N. K. Jemisin's 'The Fifth Season.' That's a book about the repeated end of the world, about anger, injustice, and the failure of societies to their people, whereas 'All the Windwracked Stars' is about the repeated end of the world, grief, guilt, and the failures of people to other people. I don't know that I've got the energy to do that essay the justice it deserves, so instead you should just go read this book, and think about surviving. and the guilt you can carry for other people's failings.