The novella is a retelling of a reasonably well-known fairytale murder ballad, so alert readers may anticipate some of the story beats. There are two sisters, and a suitor, and a warning from beyond via music. But even if a reader has an idea of where the story is going, there are bends in this river of a plot.
It’s not a long collection, containing about 40 poems (some just a few lines, many several e-pages long), a foreword, a list of content warnings/triggers, a fascinating multi-page afterword, and an appendix that lists which fairy tales inspired which poems. I don’t necessarily recommend trying to read all the poems in one go, since that may blunt their edges and impacts, but rather reading a few per day, taking time to savor them.
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… Although it is cumbersome to obtain at the time of writing (it is only currently published in India), if the idea of a SF legal thriller that turns on questions of sociology and society in a secondary world thrills you, The Sentence is definitely worth your time.
“I’ve now gone back and re-watched the entire trilogy across two days to put some of my thoughts on the X series down, including possible answers to that question, and an argument for why that third film should be better appreciated within the context of the series as a whole.”
Coyote Run is a standalone work. However, Saintcrow’s website calls it “the first Amazing Tale of Antifascist Action,” so I am hopeful that more stories will follow in this setting, especially if this novella does well, which it certainly deserves!
