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cat-dragron · 1 month ago

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I'm still so mad that August Kitko was such a mid book and like I would go do far as to say maybe it was bad but it's likely it just wasn't for me.

And then I read Hell Followed With Us and realize hey now... there's a lot of similarities between these two books and wow i am enjoying this other book way more. I almost want to dig into that and figure out why. Can you ever dislike something so much you want to take a scalpel to it and dissect it to find the bloody heart? Yeah that's what I'm feeling with August Kitko... it kinda sucks but I need to know why it makes me so mad.

#cat rambles #both books are about queer people at the end of the world #both are written by trans authors and yet the queerness is handled so differently #i just.... hell followed with us manages to really get into the world building and it feels alive despite most of hunanity being dead #akatmfs just... it feels so surface level and the more i think about thst book the more pissed off i get #i really wanted to like it SO BADLY AND YET I AM JUST SEETHING #i did finish akatmfs and i was just disaappinted at the ending #there are moments in hell followed with us that made me shriek out loud like OH SHIT ya know???#i like it when authors do interesting things with their medium #andrew joseph white does that so well with the spirit bears its teeth and with hell followed with us #ann leckie also does this well just with how she writes the characters and differing perspectives #akatmfs just.... even with two main characters it just doesnt do anything interesting with that #LIKE FUCK okay #chapter 1 is from gus's pov which is good! then chapter 2 is all from ardent's persepctive iirc #thats cool!!! i like different povs but then it just starts changing pov in the middle of yhe chapter and that just.... okay i guess #i thought you were setting up this cool rhing IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO COOL #theres a part where gus gets kocked the fuck out #imagine if instead of having thet dull ass conversation with Infinite the chapter was just kike a single line of him passed out and then we #snap back to ardent #THAT WOULD BE THRILLING #THAT WOULD BE SUSPENSEFUL BC WE DONT KNOW WHATLL HAPPEN TO GUS #but no we get thus dumb ass concersation between gus and infinite that i just disnt care for #i read it all and god i just rolled my eyes becasue of course the book reveals the mystery of where the Vanguards cane from so fast #maybe i just gotta write an essay about this idk #i have thoughts

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