So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion by Caren Gussoff Sumption

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is the kind of science fiction I love: where not much happens, but everything happens. There's nothing in the way of plot-slowing action, just James' and Aveliin's (I might have misspelled this, but I passed my copy on to a friend, so I don't have it to refer to) relationship unfolding. At first, I took James' last name, Blackthorne, as a Shogun reference and possible spoiler. If it is in fact a Shogun reference, then it's more of a . . . but that would be telling! I took one star off because I felt that a hundred more pages or so would have more thoroughly expressed the world, especially the languagey bits, which were a bit confusing at times. I have no doubt that the author has spent a lot of time in the world she built--and possibly speaks fluent Zill (sp?)!--and I would have liked to see more of that passed along to the reader. All in all, yes, do read it. You will spent a lot of time thinking about it afterwards



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