I have been on a kick recently looking at novels where ideas become “entities” and this novel is an interesting look at what constitutes a “city”.
I have never read Jemisin, but from what you said, maybe you would enjoy The City and the City by Mieville.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will check it out!
I found it! I had to browse this community from a separate instance in the browser and tell my Lemmy client to open the permalink on your comment before it would show up.
Anyway I’m a fan of both Jemisin and Mieville and would encourage you to read some Jemisin. Maybe not as gritty and grimy but still really good.I feel like an idiot… it took me days to figure out that Jemisin is also the author of the Broken Earth trilogy, that I read and really enjoyed. Somehow I did not merge the two.
I can’t see the other comment since logging in because ??federation?? but as someone who has read both this book and The City and the City by China Mieville, I would like to agree that you would enjoy the latter as well.
While The World We Make (Become’s sequel) didn’t live up to my hopes, I will still buy anything with Jemisin’s name on it.