ohhhhhh i picked up another of ivana skye’s books, this standalone novella thing called the size of the world, simply becuz my brain won’t focus on books that are uncomplicatedly good not sehhinah and i thought this might be kinda close, and......it is not close the writing style is COMPLETELY different. at first glance i wouldn’t have possibly guessed it was written by the same person if i didn’t know......but then in continuing into it like, the core and ethos feels very familiar to the author too......
but it’s all a very very allegory for a scientific phenomenon (that is never explained! the book leaves you with an INTENSE feeling that Something Was Up That Would Explain Everything but still feels completely whole and evocative, but i guess if you’re motivated enough it just waits for you to g o o g l e some terms to give yourself a retroactive cascade of sudden understanding!!!!!! the skill level is??????? the level of craft cleverness?????? also and??????? wtf?????? it’s like REALLY good. a few clunky self-pub-typical sections but apart from that???
also there is a very minor proto-holy character (by the publish date this was done before sehhinah) who is!
i didn’t ummmm know this writer could write like this LOL
it's set in a flat earth (ringed earth?) secondary world. this also very manga like in style but in a very different way, more like the Actual captions and dialogue of manga than a light novel adaptation of one, very dreamlike/poetic, extremely sparse prose
the description doesn’t tell you it’s a scientific allegory it also doesn’t tell you that one of the two leads (it’s a sort of f/f romance) is a trans fem, though this information is couched in a description of a cultural practice that is SO far from the nu-acceptable anglo narrative of how transness Must work, the romance which is between two YOUNG people has intense and brief and unselfconsciously unwinking unanxious Deep BDSM (though with no bdsm culture or accoutrements whatever becuz it is completely no connection to real world or time) and i?????
