20.08.24
There's a thin line between brilliant and terrible, and this story walks it, occasionally dropping a foot on both sides. The angst! The yearning! The refreshing reinterpretation of masculinity and male relationships that nevertheless continues to disregard the role of women so that the few female characters were entirely nominal! The evocative and distinctive voice that needed a much stronger editorial intervention to tighten up an often-meandering narrative! Overall, it was a better novel than The Extraordinaries, but then that was for a very different readership.
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