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A review by novella42
Archangel by Marguerite Reed
5.0
Review from 2015: Be prepared for badass rifle-toting scientists, alien dinosaurs, genetically modified walking weapons, a healthy dose of subtle yet unmistakable feminism, and some excellent storytelling. Oh and some sexiness. And violence. And cussing. Did I mention exciting badassery?
Beyond the scope of her worldbuilding skills, Reed has a talent for crystalizing and humanizing the most heartwrenching moments, like how it feels to land on a planet for the first time in your life, setting down in the grey leading edge of dawn, and watching the glory of the new world breaking open around you. She wrote that a character caressed the grass like a lover’s hair. "This was the dreaming gray of dawn," she wrote, "the color of the silence before the beloved speaks, the color of the water-filled glass offered to parch long thirst. Overhead the sky’s clarity seemed to ring of itself."
And that's not even the best part of that scene!
Beyond the scope of her worldbuilding skills, Reed has a talent for crystalizing and humanizing the most heartwrenching moments, like how it feels to land on a planet for the first time in your life, setting down in the grey leading edge of dawn, and watching the glory of the new world breaking open around you. She wrote that a character caressed the grass like a lover’s hair. "This was the dreaming gray of dawn," she wrote, "the color of the silence before the beloved speaks, the color of the water-filled glass offered to parch long thirst. Overhead the sky’s clarity seemed to ring of itself."
And that's not even the best part of that scene!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Gun violence, Animal death, and Gore