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Reading and Writing
Feb. 19th, 2024 10:31 pmFeb 2023
Ocean's Echo – Everina Maxwell – Orbit, 2022
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This novel is set in the same universe as Maxwell's previous book Winter's Orbit, though apart from the cultural convention of gender identification (wood for male, flint for female) and the presence of the space-lane-controlling Resolution, there is very little connection. Well, other than the two main characters, who personality-wise are cookie-cutter copies of the protagonists of the earlier novel. Fortunately, the new situation that Maxwell puts them in is interesting and well worked out, and the story is pleasingly unexpected.
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