Adrift amongst lines
When was the last time you read a good book? No, I mean a really. good. book. The sort whose lines are so masterfully wrought that their ink seems to bleed under your fingers. The kind of book whose words seep past your eyes and coil in the back of your mind, waiting until you close their pages to billow out and cut you loose from the paltry confines of this isolated reality.
I'm pretty sure I'm still sitting on my couch, but I wouldn't swear to it. I'm disconnected stil, and I've disappointed myself with this feeble attempt to praise a brilliant author's first--that's right, her very first--novel.
Beautiful circumstance directed N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms into my hands two days ago, and after finishing it earlier tonight--and after I screwed my head halfway back on--I couldn't help but try to write about it.
100K (as the lady calls it) is a startlingly original fantasy. To read your way into its world is to look into clear water, like an ocean hiding the danger of its depth with sweet, whispered lies. The characters and their world are crafted with great human insight, and while the descriptions are sometimes sparse, the prose in enviably clean and enticing.
Is there anything more to be said about this book and the one who pinned its words? Go. Read it. Loose the moorings of reality for a little while.
I'm pretty sure I'm still sitting on my couch, but I wouldn't swear to it. I'm disconnected stil, and I've disappointed myself with this feeble attempt to praise a brilliant author's first--that's right, her very first--novel.
Beautiful circumstance directed N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms into my hands two days ago, and after finishing it earlier tonight--and after I screwed my head halfway back on--I couldn't help but try to write about it.
100K (as the lady calls it) is a startlingly original fantasy. To read your way into its world is to look into clear water, like an ocean hiding the danger of its depth with sweet, whispered lies. The characters and their world are crafted with great human insight, and while the descriptions are sometimes sparse, the prose in enviably clean and enticing.
Is there anything more to be said about this book and the one who pinned its words? Go. Read it. Loose the moorings of reality for a little while.