What I'm reading
Jul. 15th, 2019 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneToday I finished Mishell Baker's Borderline, the first in her Arcadia Project series.
This is promising. There are some wobbles in the form of ungainly info-dumps, but Baker has presented her protagonist with a mysteriously vague job offer, so there's reasonable cause for Millie's prospective coworkers to be explaining things to her. And since Millie hasn't yet signed the employment contract, there's cause for them to be a bit mysterious with her as well.
I'd have liked more outlines for how Fae culture works with its Seelie and Unseelie courts. But Millie has plenty to deal with already: both physical and mental disabilities plus dwindling savings mean she has to focus on survival, and since this is a series, there will be plenty of time to fill in the wider worldbuilding later.
I can't go into detail on the real-world-analogue character, nor the trope that had me sputtering with laughter, without spoiling, so I won't. This one is definitely in the follow-up category.
This is promising. There are some wobbles in the form of ungainly info-dumps, but Baker has presented her protagonist with a mysteriously vague job offer, so there's reasonable cause for Millie's prospective coworkers to be explaining things to her. And since Millie hasn't yet signed the employment contract, there's cause for them to be a bit mysterious with her as well.
I'd have liked more outlines for how Fae culture works with its Seelie and Unseelie courts. But Millie has plenty to deal with already: both physical and mental disabilities plus dwindling savings mean she has to focus on survival, and since this is a series, there will be plenty of time to fill in the wider worldbuilding later.
I can't go into detail on the real-world-analogue character, nor the trope that had me sputtering with laughter, without spoiling, so I won't. This one is definitely in the follow-up category.
