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wednesday books
9 March 2022 20:18The Mask of Mirrors, M. A. Carrick (joint pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms). Finished this -- it was a good first book of a trilogy, with a complete plot that leaves mysteries and unresolved plot hooks for future books. I'll be starting book 2, The Liar's Knot as soon as I finish this review.
The worldbuilding in these books I think is less generic than it looks like on the surface -- for instance there are hints that this is not an entirely cis-hetero-normative society, it acknowledges that gender and sexuality are more complicated than that, without going into any more detail than is needed for the plot.
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The worldbuilding in these books I think is less generic than it looks like on the surface -- for instance there are hints that this is not an entirely cis-hetero-normative society, it acknowledges that gender and sexuality are more complicated than that, without going into any more detail than is needed for the plot.
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