A review by heylook
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

1.0

Okay, this is another one of those fantasy books with a bunch of made-up names and places, which is obnoxious enough, but then it's another god damn journey quest against all powerful evil or something. The theme underlying it all is apparently the power of telling stories, but all that means is that there are dozens of asides that go off into different narratives (poetry AND prose) so it's all just a big muddle of extraneous material with no real bearing on the plot. Masturbatory self-indulgence.