Sophie
Psychotic, but I love it. Intertwining hobbyist game dev principles with the transition of three completely different trans woman and the evolution over different decades is beautiful. Great amount of unanswered questions from the final chapters. The only time the three chatting together is shown is through online group chats in the early prologue setup of the book and I really believed they would get back together and something great would happen with their game, but its just a mess of intersecting parts and parsing out feelings relating to decades ago. I will say that while I wanted the happy ending it felt unrealistic from the setup. Atleast thinking back to how my teen hobbyist gamedev projects went. The ending felt perfect for what the opposite would be, a complete mess if only relating back to those teenage years even if when thats when you truly discovered yourself. So much unanswered, this one certainly will be re-read.
Also beautiful language throughout. This book had more new vocab then all other books I've read so far this year combined: Inveterate, sordid, involution, ashlar, redolent, portentous, reveries, chitin, porous, rachis, venal, phylactery, epigram, jouncing, irascible, sqaulor, rakish, koan, dessicated, sluicing, and derelict.
Psychotic, but I love it. Intertwining hobbyist game dev principles with the transition of three completely different trans woman and the evolution over different decades is beautiful. Great amount of unanswered questions from the final chapters. The only time the three chatting together is shown is through online group chats in the early prologue setup of the book and I really believed they would get back together and something great would happen with their game, but its just a mess of intersecting parts and parsing out feelings relating to decades ago. I will say that while I wanted the happy ending it felt unrealistic from the setup. Atleast thinking back to how my teen hobbyist gamedev projects went. The ending felt perfect for what the opposite would be, a complete mess if only relating back to those teenage years even if when thats when you truly discovered yourself. So much unanswered, this one certainly will be re-read.
Also beautiful language throughout. This book had more new vocab then all other books I've read so far this year combined: Inveterate, sordid, involution, ashlar, redolent, portentous, reveries, chitin, porous, rachis, venal, phylactery, epigram, jouncing, irascible, sqaulor, rakish, koan, dessicated, sluicing, and derelict.
