#belay

Silks Rocking Horse to Belay

October 15, 2023:

A delight to read again! I had worried that it wouldn't make me feel the same way as when I first read it 4 years ago, but it was this month's Last Words Book Club book and I'm the one who suggested it. I was pleasantly surprised, then, to find that it definitely has the same impact. It's very easy to forget exactly what happens because its alllll vibes, baby! Well, not all. About 10% of the book is scattered but very intense action. The atmosphere is top notch, full dread all the way through. I am living for all the little details about all the mundane annoyances of climbing and caving, all the horrifying minutiae of a dangerous job. This was somewhat unpopular in the book club, so I'll concede that hundreds of pages of pure ambience is not for everybody. But in this case, it is very, very for me.

Concept art of Heath Amber, a firefly teen also adventuring across Synnia, that Poppin and Jupa come across and tends to butt heads with the latter due to their personalities.

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