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The third Preiti / Mossa book, and now that they are together they are having problems.
HEY THERE ARE ALWAYS SPOILERS HERE! You’ve been warned.
Where was I?
Oh! Some friends from student days are having difficulty. One, Villette, is up for a donship and subjected to underhanded attacks and gossip. The second, Pretanj, Villette’s cousin, is taking it seriously and knowing a little about what happened to Preiti in the previous books, asks for Preiti’s help, as she does not want to go the Investigators. Preiti attempts to interest Mossa, who says no very strenuously and is generally behaving either weirdly, or like someone with attachment issues, severe bouts of depression and burnout. So probably choice B. In any event, Preiti and Pretanj travel to Stortellen, and Preiti gets a detailed view of what a university other than Valdegeld is like. Villette’s amazing, and has invented something that you pop into your nose and now you don’t need an atmoscarf any more.
Preiti meets a whole lot of friends, coworkers and randos around Villette in or adjacent to Stortellen. Lots of fun getting to know a bunch of stereotypes of academe and other hangers on. So many reasons someone might hate a very successful young academic like Villette! Mossa eventually shows up (I mean, it says so on the tin so we are not particularly surprised) and probably only Preiti is surprised by how long she’s been there and wooo is she mad! Fair, tho.
Their relationship and the case advances, and the friendship between Preiti and Pretanj increases and Villette starts to perceive the danger and we have further evidence of the incompetency and/or evils of academic institutions that really ought to have been supportive and sensible and most definitely are not.
It’s an enjoyable read, but I probably would not start with this book. The tales set along the rails of Giant are a great deal of fun, and the language play Malka Older engages in gets better on each outing.
HEY THERE ARE ALWAYS SPOILERS HERE! You’ve been warned.
Where was I?
Oh! Some friends from student days are having difficulty. One, Villette, is up for a donship and subjected to underhanded attacks and gossip. The second, Pretanj, Villette’s cousin, is taking it seriously and knowing a little about what happened to Preiti in the previous books, asks for Preiti’s help, as she does not want to go the Investigators. Preiti attempts to interest Mossa, who says no very strenuously and is generally behaving either weirdly, or like someone with attachment issues, severe bouts of depression and burnout. So probably choice B. In any event, Preiti and Pretanj travel to Stortellen, and Preiti gets a detailed view of what a university other than Valdegeld is like. Villette’s amazing, and has invented something that you pop into your nose and now you don’t need an atmoscarf any more.
Preiti meets a whole lot of friends, coworkers and randos around Villette in or adjacent to Stortellen. Lots of fun getting to know a bunch of stereotypes of academe and other hangers on. So many reasons someone might hate a very successful young academic like Villette! Mossa eventually shows up (I mean, it says so on the tin so we are not particularly surprised) and probably only Preiti is surprised by how long she’s been there and wooo is she mad! Fair, tho.
Their relationship and the case advances, and the friendship between Preiti and Pretanj increases and Villette starts to perceive the danger and we have further evidence of the incompetency and/or evils of academic institutions that really ought to have been supportive and sensible and most definitely are not.
It’s an enjoyable read, but I probably would not start with this book. The tales set along the rails of Giant are a great deal of fun, and the language play Malka Older engages in gets better on each outing.