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A review by arealswellfellow
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
NK Jemisin is a creative and fun writer. It’s hard not to have fun reading this book. I think the concept of city avatars and city magic is also really intriguing.
I really wanted to like this book. It starts even better than the first one!
I think this book just feels unfinished. So as much I love the concept the execution leaves me wishing for something more.
Jemisin touches on this in the acknowledgements, originally intended as a trilogy the series was shortened due to Covid, US politics, and cultural changes in NYC. Real life moved faster than the books, a challenge for any series set in the present day.
However, in this book we end up with some of the most fantastic urban fantasy set up and then an anticlimactic finish. So many large plot lines end as a one line sentence in the coda. Things accelerate at such a strange pace in the last few chapters and it just feels like the plan had changed.
I really wanted to like this book. It starts even better than the first one!
I think this book just feels unfinished. So as much I love the concept the execution leaves me wishing for something more.
Jemisin touches on this in the acknowledgements, originally intended as a trilogy the series was shortened due to Covid, US politics, and cultural changes in NYC. Real life moved faster than the books, a challenge for any series set in the present day.
However, in this book we end up with some of the most fantastic urban fantasy set up and then an anticlimactic finish. So many large plot lines end as a one line sentence in the coda. Things accelerate at such a strange pace in the last few chapters and it just feels like the plan had changed.