The Mountain in the Sea

Besides reading the winners of certain awards like the Hugos and the Nebulas, I try to read as many of the nominees as I can. This book was nominated for a 2022 Nebula. I can see why. It has very pretty prose. The Nebula award is a peer award, so you can almost always count on the nominees having nice prose. Unfortunately, I didn't think it translated into a great novel. It was weighted down by disparate plotlines that didn't come together until the very end. The result was a lot of characters you only see every few chapters or so, and action that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the main and most interesting plot, intelligent octopuses.

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