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The Sixth Nik
Daniel Kraus
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If you've read any of Emezi's books other than the Pet series, it might be striking how light(?) this is in comparison. Emezi is an exceptionally skilled writer, and it strikes me that it was their intentional choice to write this book in the style and format of a paranormal romance, both using and subverting tropes and maintaining faster pacing and generally linear storytelling.
On one hand this is a fun, explicit paranormal romance. On the other hand, I really appreciated the way in which it incorporates strong themes of found family, friendship, identity, relationship repair, and redemption. It seems like there is a possibility of this becoming a romance "series" in which there are multiple books in the same setting with different MCs. I love the characters and world that Emezi built in this book, and I wish I could watch a TV series that could delve deeper into the Kincaid family and showcase the everyday lives and hunting of the Kincaids braided together with overarching divine storylines.
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Son of the Morning
Akwaeke Emezi
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Son of the Morning
Akwaeke Emezi
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The Factory Witches of Lowell
C.S. Malerich
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What We Are Seeking
Cameron Reed
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The Bone Thief
Vanessa Lillie
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d_Iffer commented on OhMyDio's review of Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
This was super fun, but honestly not actually that good. We meander A LOT, we say "the world" but we really mean for white people, and our journalistic integrity is pretty so so.
There is lots of interesting and surprising information here, but surprising no one I wanted a little more about the tomatoes themselves and a little less about all the random people and such, although I didn't really expect a focus on the plants directly.
Tomatoes have been through a wild ride, and this was a fun way to learn about it, even if I wish we had dialed it in in some places and not even bothered with others.