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Quartzen
is 65% done
I keep thinking about how different from current writing advice norms this series is as I'm reading this entry. There are so many opportunities for thing to go spectacularly, stake-escalatingly, body-count-accumulatingly wrong, but for the most part they don't. The worst _doesn't_ always happen for the characters, because Cherryh finds interest in a society with a different status quo as much as one in crisis.
— Oct 16, 2020 01:46PM
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Quartzen
is 17% done
"_Love_ was assuredly not in it, but certainly attraction was." I've been a bit frustrated with the amount of recap in this series in the last few entries, with Bren's internal rumination almost getting to the point of parody as the time scale of each novel shrinks and shrinks, but if this one is going to maybe hand me more evidence for my reading of the series as an aromantic allosexual narrative I won't complain
— Sep 19, 2020 12:17PM
