This is an utterly brilliant and devastatingly brutal fantasy novel that reminds me a lot of (my reading of the first two) Gene Wolfe New Sun novels. The world we enter into it here does not contain a lot of specific context for us to understand much, but moves us through it borrowing heavily from tropes and sources as we watch a character (an exiled woman) move through a fantasy world. As she does so, she clearly starts to question her own surroundings, as we […]