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A time warp Ikea

Finna by Nino Cipri

December 30, 2024 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Finna by Nino Cipri was another Lawless Book Club read back in January. In this science fiction novella, we meet Ava and Jules who work at an Ikea-inspired furniture store called  LitenVärld. They’ve recently broken up and are having issues navigating their work and now-only friendship status. Ava is anxious and unsure of what she wants from anything. Jules is Black and non-binary and more zen about the break-up. They’ve worked through much of their trauma and can’t force Ava to figure herself out. Before […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: alternate dimensions, finna, ikea, LGBTQIA, multiple universes, nino cipri, queer romance, sci-fi, wormholes

teresaelectro's CBR16 Review No:7 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: alternate dimensions, finna, ikea, LGBTQIA, multiple universes, nino cipri, queer romance, sci-fi, wormholes ·
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Trying too hard to be too much

Finna by Nino Cipri

June 24, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I don’t like it when recommendations and blurbs lie to me, or are misleading. I also don’t especially enjoy it when a story is trying so hard to make some kind of meaningful point that it repeatedly directly tells you it’s trying to make said point. Finna has so much going for it: basically a pair of queer employees, both of whom have emotional or neuro-divergent struggles, of a store that sounds suspiciously like IKEA, who very recently broke up, end up going on an […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, finna, ikea, LGBTQ, nino cipri, queer, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:54 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, finna, ikea, LGBTQ, nino cipri, queer, Speculative Fiction ·
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