Jenn "JR" > Status Update

I’m halfway through the second book in the Legendborn cycle, I have to say: I really appreciate the kind of tight, disciplined worldbuilding that Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz do. They build entire universes without inflating their books into 500–600pp behemoths. Deonn’s ambition is impressive, but she packs in so much clothing description and surface detail that it often comes at the expense of interiority.