The Unbalancing
Jul. 7th, 2023 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraThe Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg, 2022 novel. I had loved the previous longer Birdverse work, The Four Profound Weaves, but this one didn't really click for me. Maybe it didn't help to have just read books by Scalzi and Wells, like, they are both such story-on-rails writers, where you are just constantly carried forward, and in comparison, Lemberg is like... sitting there handing you random puzzle pieces. Why does this scene come after that one? Why does this *sentence* come after that one? Why did that character do that, in reaction to that thing? I could, eventually, see (some of) what they were trying to do, and there was some neat stuff in there! But the way that stuff was put together and paced sold it short. (I do wish I was living in the alternate universe where people were as excited about their ichidi variations as they were about their Hogwarts houses, though. I mean, I guess anyone can have a Hogwarts house and most people would not be ichidi. But still.)
