Tanya’s Reviews > Children of Strife > Status Update

“He, too, has perpetrated such a wrongness. The logical end result of unchecked adherence to Stomatopod ideals of dominance and conflict. The Portiids, in contrast, have a worldview made of connecting threads, each to each, pulling together.”

HA! This is patriarchy compared against matriarchy!!

“A skewed cultural story which placed the violent warrior on an undersea pedestal, and drew a veil of silt over the nuances of history as well as the consequences of brutality.” a veil of silt, brilliant :)

while i am glad we don’t have to go a painstakingly repetitive explanation of Hartland to Kern’s team, i also don’t really like how Kern has just “remembered/figured it all out”. esp bc soooo many other concepts get repeated ad nauseam (god-hood, us/we/many/I), maybe some pages could have been redirected. AT tends to do this, the repeating of internal monologue.

ahhh so Alis is the amorphous “goo” from Book 3, okay. oooof, Portia and Fabian melded together but also still Portia and Fabian, but now uploaded to the ant OS of a Kern robot is crazy. and there are people on Hartworld!