Status Updates From Butterfly and Hellflower

"The lift opened on a room done in early ostentation."

here's a corniness in the book that got me so mad. the protag's contact is named Moke Rahone. rhymes with "pogue mahone", Gaelic for "kiss my ass". funny, kinda obscure for the early, pre-Pogues 1980s, fine fine fine, but mere pages later she throws in a planet called RokeMhone and expects me to not throw the book across the room, like i wouldn't notice such laziness.

i guess i'm reading this. it's competent swashbuckling adventure, heavy on a corny future dialect that makes nods towards linguistic drift but is closer to cockney than AAVE and embarrasses itself when it even glances at the latter. corny is the word. the whole thing is corny. compelling, but corny. so i soldier on.

I am loving this! Got through some other *paper* books and I'm picking this one back up.