A Snake Falls To Earth

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A Snake Falls To Earth, Darcie Little Badger, 2021. I was excited to read this after Elatsoe (which I wrote about here), but I wasn't so into it. The pacing is weirdly... flat? or episodic? or something? I would not be surprised to learn that Little Badger developed it from a series of bedtime stories she had been telling her younger cousin, or maybe a series of bedtime stories someone older had been telling *her*, or something. Which, I don't mean to say is a bad thing! That sounds really sweet! "Tell me another story about Oli," sure! The characters were neat, and if sometimes what they were doing next seemed a little random, some of it was also neat, so, hey. And if some of it was kind of underdescribed, like jumping away from something big about to happen, or having just happened, then maybe that fits in well with the bedtime-stories theory, where the listener is supposed to fill in those parts with their own imagination. If I mostly did not, I suppose that's on me. :/