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In the Wake of Infinities
In a world where your life argues for you, carving out possibilities for the world to come, how far can you really run from yourself?
The world has changed forever. There are Gods other than God. But what does that really mean? Elīya feels both part and not part of this new world. And she wants to understand.
Lucifer does not want to understand. Does not want to understand this new world, the past they’ve desperately tried to push away, anything at all except their fervent hope for a future where the world ends and they are finally reunited with their friends. But their past is closer to them than they think, and Elīya is a force to be reckoned with.
In this novella set immediately after the epilogue of The Lives that Argue for Us, someone’s life is going to make an argument they were never expecting.
The world has changed forever. There are Gods other than God. But what does that really mean? Elīya feels both part and not part of this new world. And she wants to understand.
Lucifer does not want to understand. Does not want to understand this new world, the past they’ve desperately tried to push away, anything at all except their fervent hope for a future where the world ends and they are finally reunited with their friends. But their past is closer to them than they think, and Elīya is a force to be reckoned with.
In this novella set immediately after the epilogue of The Lives that Argue for Us, someone’s life is going to make an argument they were never expecting.
126 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 15, 2025
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April 5, 2025
Very aggressive, curious, pushy novella addition to the Sehhinah series. Set after the third book, it dives inwards to explore deeply, rather than broadly, the implications of godhood as the series sets it up. It does this by revealing a preexisting character's own godhood to themself -- when that character themself is the person who least wants to hear that they're a god. Walks a careful tightrope between not closing down the wonderfully open ending of The Lives That Argue For Us, nor being pointless filler that doesn't change anything. This novella causes several scenes in the series to be recontextualized in an extra slant of light, but without retconning them, and in several cases by deepening implications that were already there. It has some of the most experimental and complex prose in the series as well, which works very well with the plot's harrowing focus on bitterly twisted, long-repressed trauma.
I think this novella's greatest strengths are its depiction of multi-layered trauma, which has taken on a form that manages to be both festering and calcified, where a new revelation is enough to tumble down a longstanding, precarious house of cards that has been keeping mental health together . And to turn it into a set of vicious weapons against themself and others. This depiction is tight, believable despite its severity, and written very, very cleverly. I'm taking one star off only because some of the other characters' positioning and behavior suffered a little in service to the main premise and the main character's character arc, and some of the overall plot was a bit contrived in comparison to other books in this series. However it's more of a 4.5 star if goodreads allowed half stars.
I think this novella's greatest strengths are its depiction of multi-layered trauma, which has taken on a form that manages to be both festering and calcified, where a new revelation is enough to tumble down a longstanding, precarious house of cards that has been keeping mental health together . And to turn it into a set of vicious weapons against themself and others. This depiction is tight, believable despite its severity, and written very, very cleverly. I'm taking one star off only because some of the other characters' positioning and behavior suffered a little in service to the main premise and the main character's character arc, and some of the overall plot was a bit contrived in comparison to other books in this series. However it's more of a 4.5 star if goodreads allowed half stars.
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