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firstroad ([personal profile] firstroad) wrote in [personal profile] meikuree 2025-06-22 10:54 pm (UTC)

Ali Smith is a writer I've heard SO much about and still have never picked up -- TBH, at least partially because almost every review I've seen has included something about how many of the very-political ideas(/statements) in her books remain surface level or don't seem to understand their own implications.

people on the internet: we have lyrical writing at home!
the lyrical writing at home: actually normal straightforward spec sci-fi/fantasy writing
me: I’m never trusting any of you again


YOU'RE SO REAL. I got myself an ebook of this a few months back and, to its credit, it is better written (on a sentence level, I never got past chapter two) than 99% of SFF that gets buzz. Unfortunately that is not a very high bar to clear. (But hey, violent filthy f/f porn, u say? 👀 I should give it a second chance.)

next time I’ll go for a Toni Morrison novel instead.


HAH.

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