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A review by fedak
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
5.0
My first of McGuire’s extensive catalog and easily my favorite out of the 2020 Hugo nominees (And despite the Hugo nod, this was much more gothic horror than science fiction)
Reminded me a lot of vintage Stephen King (particularly in her writing of the child characters and her habit of throwing out foreshadowing asides at the end of chapters)
And it is always nice to see a time travel/parallel universe narrative that doesn't implode on itself.
My only (minor) gripe was that the two protagonists were supposed to separately be the literal embodiments of mathematical logic and verbal communication.
And the speech patterns of the two weren’t really as reflective of that as one would have expected- particularly the math genius.
Reminded me a lot of vintage Stephen King (particularly in her writing of the child characters and her habit of throwing out foreshadowing asides at the end of chapters)
And it is always nice to see a time travel/parallel universe narrative that doesn't implode on itself.
My only (minor) gripe was that the two protagonists were supposed to separately be the literal embodiments of mathematical logic and verbal communication.
And the speech patterns of the two weren’t really as reflective of that as one would have expected- particularly the math genius.