Not sure what to make of The Giants of the Violet Sea. The setting is a colony on an inhospitable world where most life is toxic to the colonists. One of these toxic life forms is highly revered--the Venedolphin. More like a whale, and the colonists understand it to have a complex social structure. But they are being poached. The protagonist is a girl child of a Venedolphin tamer and a healer. The society has structured gender roles so she could not be a tamer, but didn't want to be a healer like her mother so she left for a time. She comes back to solve the mystery of her brother's death.
The story is mostly confusing and kind of hard to follow. There's a lot of side issues, like a more-favored sister colony that seems to have ruined its environment, that are introduced but don't really go anywhere. In the end it all resolves but it's in a kind of awkward space where the author needed a lot more space to develop it all, or a lot less plot. It's also a bit awkward to read for a major award nominated story.
Showing posts with label Eugenia Triantafyllou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eugenia Triantafyllou. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022
My Country Is a Ghost, by Eugenia Triantafyllou
The setup for My Country Is a Ghost is interesting, but kind of a stretch. People's ancestors routinely stick around as ghosts and can accompany a person and even talk to them. But the US (maybe, the country isn't specifically mentioned but it sounds like the US) doesn't allow immigrants to bring their ghosts with them. Without the ghosts, our protagonist feels in constant danger of losing her heritage. It's an interesting try at making that heritage loss tangible.
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