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A review by snazel
The Starlit Wood by Garth Nix, Karin Tidbeck, Aliette de Bodard, Seanan McGuire, Navah Wolfe, Sofia Samatar, Jeffrey Ford, Kat Howard, Dominik Parisien, Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar, Genevieve Valentine, Charlie Jane Anders, Marjorie Liu, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Stephen Graham Jones
5.0
This story is the most curious combination of gentle and brutal, cutting and affirming.
The fact that Amal has so much training as a poet is super clear. There is absolutely no wasted flesh on this beast. Every word has a purpose. But I WANT more wasted flesh. More jokes, and What Happened After, and more in this world, and to reach in and hug our main characters.
For a story that closes so neatly in a circle, it's oddly unsettling. (This is probably connected to why it has won all the awards.)
The fact that Amal has so much training as a poet is super clear. There is absolutely no wasted flesh on this beast. Every word has a purpose. But I WANT more wasted flesh. More jokes, and What Happened After, and more in this world, and to reach in and hug our main characters.
For a story that closes so neatly in a circle, it's oddly unsettling. (This is probably connected to why it has won all the awards.)