The Sweet Far Thing

I'm late coming to this but I'd loved Libba Bray's other books and figured I should check these out. (Also I read all 3 together in a week of quarantine without pausing to review between them, so they've blurred together in my mind.) Basically there is a lot to like but also...well...Libba Bray has deffo grown as an author. These are messy and draggy books, and the ~mystery~ is unnecessarily prolonged and I kind of just wanted to keep shaking Gemma to be like NO, ASK A FUCKING QUESTION AND GET AN ANSWER ALREADY!!!!

But I like Gemma and I like the realistically messy characters.

(I used the same review for books 1 and 2 and all this still applies but also I STILL feel unsatisfied with the worldbuilding of the realms?? Like this was so long and still didn't answer my questions. Mild props for making the queer subtext text. Mild un-props for killing off the British-Indian love interest [esp when the nature of the magical sacrifice is still unclear?!])

Whatever. I'm glad this trilogy got Libba Bray her start and maybe in some ways her training wheels before writing the fantastic DIVINERS series that I love with my whole heart.