![]() To that I would say - talking cephalopod. It is too bad, really, because I do believe Tepper intended this to be a Serious Statement About Humanity. I would hate to spoil it for you, but the last 100 pages had elements to the story that were so ridiculous I was laughing until tears went down my cheeks. What starts as a simple story soon brings in the crazy elements of A Plague of Angels, including but not limited to genetic/DNA manipulation, post-nuclear half-men, magic teleportation devices, curses, talking beasts, cyberpunk librarians, quests, and a race of people living in the sea. It just isn't believable enough, isn't realistic enough. I'm sad to say that she fails miserably on this scale. But I think what she is attempting to do, and failing at, is writing like Margaret Atwood, creating a somewhat ridiculous landscape based on a dystopian future of our own world that will spur us into treating our environment better. If Tepper were merely telling an entertaining story, that would be one thing. Entire cities have either moved up mountains or been covered in water. The waters have been rising on a global scale, and the terrain has been changing rapidly. ![]() It started out stronger - a young girl is tasked with carrying the soul of a dead princess back to her home country, and is assisted by Abasio, the hero of A Plague of Angels. In this follow up to the ridiculous genre mishmash of A Plague of Angels, let's just say I didn't have high hopes. ![]()
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