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A review by saoki
The Mortal Tally by Sam Sykes
4.0
So many terrible choices. I kinda like that in Sykes' characters, it's very human to do something stupid and tell yourself it's going to be alright because you mean well or you had no other choice or anyone else would have done this (but of course my favorite character is Asper).
Edit: Wait, wait, I have an actual comment to make! It's not about the story, though. It's that the author doesn't seems to grasp what exactly is a fresco. It breaks my art school heart to see him describe a mosaic to the tile, or a bas-relief's careful sculpting, and call all of it a fresco. I know it's Lenk's perspective and that he isn't exactly an artsy person, but this is not a first person book on which the author is justified in calling things the character doesn't have a name for "thingie".
Edit: Wait, wait, I have an actual comment to make! It's not about the story, though. It's that the author doesn't seems to grasp what exactly is a fresco. It breaks my art school heart to see him describe a mosaic to the tile, or a bas-relief's careful sculpting, and call all of it a fresco. I know it's Lenk's perspective and that he isn't exactly an artsy person, but this is not a first person book on which the author is justified in calling things the character doesn't have a name for "thingie".