The Dawnhounds

This book is being touted with: If you loved Gideon the Ninth, you’ll love this.  Well, I hated Gideon and its sequel Harrow the Ninth.  I didn’t quite hate this one, but I certainly didn’t like it.  I found it a confusing, overwrought, noir fantasy/sci fi with mind-boggling magic and technology.  I was looking forward to this for its basis in Maori culture, its queer protagonist, and women pirates.  Unfortunately, I was lost through most of the book, only putting together the main plot in the last fifty pages or so.  Even so, I didn’t get who all the characters were, what their relationships with each other were, and what their journeys were throughout the book.  This book is the first of a series, the second of which is nominated for a Lammy this year for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction.  I read this so that I would understand the main characters and world building enough to not be lost next time.  Considering how lost I felt in this book, I only hope it will be enough to appreciate the sequel.

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