Granite

A book to live in

Revisado: 01-21-24

Lowell continues to deliver gripping life in a vivid world, a place for the reader's mind to live.

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A fitting, respectable, and moving conclusion

Revisado: 07-07-23

It is a hard thing to wrap a trilogy. Inheritance is also hard, handing a story on to the next generation risks loosing readers who fell in love with retiring characters. Lee succeeds in every way with this book three as the personal drama of the previous books is pivoted into a generational epic without loosing any intensity.

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Absolute Banger

Revisado: 06-29-23

Believable Asia, _characters_, drugs, gays, gangsters, love, magic, peace, politics, and war: this book has it all and it absolutely slaps. It carries on all the energy and promise of book one with all the characters you still deeply care about while bringing in still more who are just as real.

I can't wait to see how the survivors do in book three.

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Fulfills the full potential of Science Fiction

Revisado: 02-24-23

On the empty canvas of the stars, in alien colours, the author paints all the epic highs and crushing lows of human myth and drama.

Not for arachnophobes.

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More landscape than story

Revisado: 02-18-23

A touching landscape of climate grief and hope. More landscape than story, which unfolds over long years of the protagonists' lives. It's world-building of a fantasy West Africa is also a creditable contribution to the genre.

Fans of world-building are highly likely to enjoy the tour. Fans of action should be warned that most conflicts are resolved through drumming and debate.

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Not quite a good draft

Revisado: 02-03-23

The author had some interesting world-building concepts. Unfortunately the world wasn't built, the characters were unbelievable, and the central conflict of the plot was not revealed until the epilogue. Assuming the author is in her teens, the work has potential that may be revealed if her talent is developed and her ideas matured.

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Oops all tropes

Revisado: 11-17-22

The biggest problem is that none of the characters' act in a believable or consistent way. This is likely due to the author having attempted to craft a novel simply by chaining every fantasy trope together in a line. It doesn't work.

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A love-hate affair with academia and empire

Revisado: 11-02-22

A novel that approaches perfection. Every circle closed and the end is exactly what it had to be. On the way, excellent research and a highly creditable treatment of language guides the reader through a truth-filled historical fiction. The author expertly weaves revisionist post-colonial historiography with the seductive fantasies of privilege that characterize a period piece. The work's only apparent weakness comes in the polemicist's voice which, at times, strains immersion with anachronistic modernity.

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Digestive Existentialism for the End Times

Revisado: 10-25-22

Fittingly this book feels like a warm mug of tea. It stands comfortably halfway between easy-reading existentialism and intriguing speculative fiction. The alloy of climate grief and optimism is an added bonus.

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Exquisite magical realism, rare in English

Revisado: 03-22-22

Some books are spells. The words weave over and through you. They wind up a bridge to carry you from the person who you were before and the person you are after reading. The differences may be subtle but they are significant. Once you have heard the words you cannot help but to feel and to see the world has been tilted to a different angle so long as the spell lasts. This is one such book: a book full of poignancy, humour, and illusion.

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