Welcome to Litsy!

#firstlinefridays
I started this today & will be finishing this today.
it‘s difficult to put down & is likely to be added to my reread stack. ❤️‍🔥
Unless, of course, the ending is disappointing haha
#deep #refective #novella
#LGBTQ #afrofuturism #uncommon

This inventive and absorbing first contact novel follows Adaora, a marine biologist; Agu, a soldier; and Anthony, a Ghanaian rapper, as they encounter a life form with the power not only to shapeshift but to change other living creatures. An atmospheric, fascinating and sometimes horrifying account of Lagos and its evolution in the face of unprecedented evidence that aliens have arrived. I wish I'd noticed the glossary in the back a little sooner!

I do LOVE a good short story collection, and Jemisin, Leckie, and Novik have all had great ones out in the past few years. Jemisin can pretty much write any style or perspective; she‘s so versatile and her stories always manage to surprise. This is a keeper.

Workplace proximity associates.

I really enjoyed this. She really knows how to tell a story, and her worldbuilding is always well done. I loved all of the underlying commentary regarding capitalism, colonization, and climate change. Though it wasn't really hidden at all. I liked this much more than Remote Control, but less than the Binti series. She is now an autobuy author for me.

Strange book. I really liked the world and the way the story was told, in a complex nonlinear way that was fairly easy to follow due to date stamps (I still had some confusion about which things happened before and after the dome, but that didn‘t detract). Lots of interesting characters. Unfortunately, the POV character is a lazy, greedy, sex-obsessed bore. I did not enjoy spending time with Kaaro and I really don‘t get what Aminat sees in him.

I‘m enjoying this book, but I sure wish there was less about sex and erections.

Soft pick. The German translation took years to be published and a resume would've helped. Or a character sheet. The switches between the narrators were too fast and the book itself is overloaded with things happening. But it's a good ending after all and I am glad that I was able to finally finish this trilogy.

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Today‘s #libraryhaul—I returned one and picked up two so I‘m behind again 😂 I think I heard about Rosewater on a podcast and I don‘t remember what it was about but it sounded incredible. But Not Too Bold references a nice creepy fairy tale and the back said “dark fiction” and “Latin” and “sapphic” so there was no way I was leaving without it.