Deep Roots
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"Wicked for the Cthulhu Mythos" —Seanan McGuire on the Innsmouth Legacy A finalist for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel Ruthanna Emrys’ Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confronts H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos head-on, boldly upturning his fear of the unknown with a heart-warming story of found family, acceptance, and perseverance in the face of human cruelty and the cosmic apathy of the universe. Emrys brings together a family of outsiders, bridging the gaps between the many people marginalized by the homogenizing pressure of 1940s America. Aphra Marsh, descendant of the People of the Water, has survived Deep One internment camps and made a grudging peace with the government that destroyed her home and exterminated her people on land. Deep Rootscontinues Aphra’s journey to rebuild her life and family on land, as she tracks down long-lost relatives. She must repopulate Innsmouth or risk seeing it torn down by greedy developers, but as she searches she discovers that people have been going missing. She will have to unravel the mystery, or risk seeing her way of life slip away. The Innsmouth Legacy Book 1: Winter Tide Book 2: Deep Roots At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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2 primary books3 released booksThe Innsmouth Legacy is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Ruthanna Emrys.
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What I find most interesting about this particular pattern of themes and the way they emerge in the novel is that the author presents a potential solution to a very real problem. We all want the world to be a better place. We want to vanquish oppression and fear, and be really, truly free. But in order to do that, we first need to be open and honest with the people around us about who we are and what we are, while at the same time being accepting of those differences. However, to get to that point, we need to work at it, because that???s just how the world works: nothing of true value can be had for free. We cannot simply wish a better world into being, nor can we start from scratch. We have to work with what we have ??? and since this imperfect, uncaring world is all we???ve got, we might as well start here, with what we can change: ourselves.
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i really loved Winter Tide but this one is just kind of... flat? maybe it's that i didn't remember the first book that well and spent awhile trying recall exactly who was who. or it's just, a lot of politics idk
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