[books 2012] Above the Snowline
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inulro19. Above the Snowline by Steph Swainston
This is a prequel to Swainston's Castle trilogy, which I read and loved last year (I think, but with my grasp of time it could be longer).
It's neither as good as I was hoping, not as bad as I'd heard it was.
It's still about Jant, the immortal who can fly, who is the narrator of the Castle novels. In this book his narration switches off with other characters. He is forced to go back to the part of the world where he grew up (and was hounded out of, on account of being of mixed race, for lack of a better description) and ends up siding with the people he has spent his entire existence distancing himself from. He even falls in love with one of them.
From having read the Castle books, you know that it doesn't end well. How that plays out is still worth reading.
I did like this book quite a bit. It's just that she ended the third Castle book with a bunch of big reveals, and we're still left on a cliff about all those.
This is a prequel to Swainston's Castle trilogy, which I read and loved last year (I think, but with my grasp of time it could be longer).
It's neither as good as I was hoping, not as bad as I'd heard it was.
It's still about Jant, the immortal who can fly, who is the narrator of the Castle novels. In this book his narration switches off with other characters. He is forced to go back to the part of the world where he grew up (and was hounded out of, on account of being of mixed race, for lack of a better description) and ends up siding with the people he has spent his entire existence distancing himself from. He even falls in love with one of them.
From having read the Castle books, you know that it doesn't end well. How that plays out is still worth reading.
I did like this book quite a bit. It's just that she ended the third Castle book with a bunch of big reveals, and we're still left on a cliff about all those.
