Shawn
Meg Medina captures the suffocating heat, fear, and moral rot of 1977 New York with brutal clarity, but the real horror here is intimate, not sensational. This is a coming-of-age story about what it costs to keep secrets in a family that’s already burning, and what it takes to finally step out of the smoke. Dark, angry, and deeply compassionate, it earns its hope instead of faking it.
Meg Medina captures the suffocating heat, fear, and moral rot of 1977 New York with brutal clarity, but the real horror here is intimate, not sensational. This is a coming-of-age story about what it costs to keep secrets in a family that’s already burning, and what it takes to finally step out of the smoke. Dark, angry, and deeply compassionate, it earns its hope instead of faking it.
I got into this series by starting with the human division and really enjoyed the premise of the series. Now that I've gotten to read the first book in the series I'm wondering how I missed this book over the last few years. Utterly fantastic idea and despite this being a very quick read it delivers a wealth of information to get you introduced to John Scalzi's world throughout the book I eagerly read the chapters that helped move the plot, but I even was wanting more and more bits on how the world he created worked.
I got into this series by starting with the human division and really enjoyed the premise of the series. Now that I've gotten to read the first book in the series I'm wondering how I missed this book over the last few years. Utterly fantastic idea and despite this being a very quick read it delivers a wealth of information to get you introduced to John Scalzi's world throughout the book I eagerly read the chapters that helped move the plot, but I even was wanting more and more bits on how the world he created worked.
