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.
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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.)
HAH.