Oh, maybe you were the one who named it and inspired me to ask for it for Christmas!
The multiple different cultures were one of my favorite parts. Too much science fiction has a one-world culture. Earth isn't like that; why should other places be? I tried not to think too hard about physics. (Gods can change the laws of physics, right?)
I can't quite remember what you mean about the late information that characters were acting upon, but that's because my memory for plot is poor. :) What bit do you mean? I mean that Yeine withheld some of her own motivations for a bit. We knew that she wanted to know why her mother had left Sky, but the fact that she knew that that family had had her mother killed, and that she wanted revenge for that death, even at the cost of her own life, seemed to be delayed in a way that I found a little odd for a first-person narrator. When she went searching for her mother's old things with specific intent, I was surprised by how much she knew and what exactly she was looking for. sigh But now I can't remember the details either, because I started this entry months ago, and I finished it off yesterday!
I've read the sequels, and I'd recommend them, with the same reservations. Good to know! I'm thinking of reading the sequels, but often sequels aren't as good as the first book, and since I didn't unreservedly adore the first book, I wasn't entirely sure. I seem to read so few books these days that I don't want to start into a book that will disappoint me—especially because I usually can't stop but have to read through to the end anyway.
SPOILERS for Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The multiple different cultures were one of my favorite parts. Too much science fiction has a one-world culture. Earth isn't like that; why should other places be? I tried not to think too hard about physics. (Gods can change the laws of physics, right?)
I can't quite remember what you mean about the late information that characters were acting upon, but that's because my memory for plot is poor. :) What bit do you mean?
I mean that Yeine withheld some of her own motivations for a bit. We knew that she wanted to know why her mother had left Sky, but the fact that she knew that that family had had her mother killed, and that she wanted revenge for that death, even at the cost of her own life, seemed to be delayed in a way that I found a little odd for a first-person narrator. When she went searching for her mother's old things with specific intent, I was surprised by how much she knew and what exactly she was looking for. sigh But now I can't remember the details either, because I started this entry months ago, and I finished it off yesterday!
I've read the sequels, and I'd recommend them, with the same reservations.
Good to know! I'm thinking of reading the sequels, but often sequels aren't as good as the first book, and since I didn't unreservedly adore the first book, I wasn't entirely sure. I seem to read so few books these days that I don't want to start into a book that will disappoint me—especially because I usually can't stop but have to read through to the end anyway.