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A review by anna_hepworth
The Aware by Glenda Larke
4.0
Not a real review, just some bullet point reactions:
‰Ыў Larke has managed a story which has strong and believable female (main) characters while working within a somewhat feudal world setting.
‰Ыў The romance sub-text is kept firmly under the carpet, and not allowed to take over any of the storyline.
‰Ыў Both the first person narrative, and the interspersed letters from the ethnographer worked, individually and in their interaction.
‰Ыў Despite there being a fair number of characters, keeping the narrative to two viewpoints very much helped my ability to keep track, and increased my enjoyment. I suspect that there is also some very clever writing happening that is cueing which chacters is involved, rather that requiring detailed exposition (of which there is some, scattered through, but mostly for the filling in of backstory) every time someone appears on the scene.
‰Ыў Larke has managed a story which has strong and believable female (main) characters while working within a somewhat feudal world setting.
‰Ыў The romance sub-text is kept firmly under the carpet, and not allowed to take over any of the storyline.
‰Ыў Both the first person narrative, and the interspersed letters from the ethnographer worked, individually and in their interaction.
‰Ыў Despite there being a fair number of characters, keeping the narrative to two viewpoints very much helped my ability to keep track, and increased my enjoyment. I suspect that there is also some very clever writing happening that is cueing which chacters is involved, rather that requiring detailed exposition (of which there is some, scattered through, but mostly for the filling in of backstory) every time someone appears on the scene.