Re: Indigo Springs DarejonaskaiteAugust 31 2011, 04:55:17 UTC
There's very little I can add to this comment. I feel exactly the same way about the pacing/ordering - and it worked especially brilliantly as the book neared the end. You know where you end up, but as the end of the book nears and things are - increasingly not right, but not all horribly wrong yet, the rising tension is incredible. You know how fast things are going to go wrong before they do, and it all feels so relentless and inevitable. I swear, by the time I was into the last seventy pages or so, I spent every waking nonworking minute reading.
I do just want to say how much I adored the way she handled issues around sexuality. Where bisexual characters exist at all, there always seems to be an agenda around whether the character ends up "straight" or "gay", but this romantic outcome was emotionally satisfying, realistically complicated but unladen by that contrived quality. And the handling of a trans character who may not be yet using the word "trans" to describe hirself but is yet irrevocably on that road... was sensitively, beautifully handled. Really interesting stuff. I've had a run of incredibly good luck on this front lately (luck nothing - I've gotten some incredibly good recommendations) - I followed this with Gemma Files' A Book of Tongues followed by Sarah Diemer's indie YA release The Dark Wife. It's been a real treat.
Re: Indigo Springs Darecalico_reactionAugust 31 2011, 21:30:58 UTC
It may have been bad timing on my part, but the prose in A Book of Tongues just didn't click with me at all, so I ended up not finishing. Haven't heard of The Dark Wife though... I might take a gander at that one. :)
I do just want to say how much I adored the way she handled issues around sexuality. Where bisexual characters exist at all, there always seems to be an agenda around whether the character ends up "straight" or "gay", but this romantic outcome was emotionally satisfying, realistically complicated but unladen by that contrived quality. And the handling of a trans character who may not be yet using the word "trans" to describe hirself but is yet irrevocably on that road... was sensitively, beautifully handled. Really interesting stuff. I've had a run of incredibly good luck on this front lately (luck nothing - I've gotten some incredibly good recommendations) - I followed this with Gemma Files' A Book of Tongues followed by Sarah Diemer's indie YA release The Dark Wife. It's been a real treat.
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Glad you loved it! :)
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