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Elise

throatmuppet@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 1 year, 8 months ago

She/Her. 20s. Most of my reading is trying to keep up with my book club. On my own I like SF/F, trans lit and sapphic romance, as well as some non-fiction about topics I find fascinating. This includes dance music, videogames, psychoactive substances, computers and the occult. I also try to read theory, classics and more academic works, though I've struggled with that since I was young. I track my manga reading seperately. My main fedi is currently @throatmuppet@xyzzy.link.

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2025 Reading Goal

41% complete! Elise has read 5 of 12 books.

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Sascha Stronach: Dawnhounds (2022, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers) 4 stars

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, …

A different kind of future

4 stars

The Dawnhounds is a book that is doing so many different things that any comparison will be a misrepresentation. I think people will mostly point to the way that the technology has been mostly replaced by biology; most obviously, the city is built of fungi, but this isn't a soft solarpunk fantasy; cnidocytes have also been adapted to use as weapons by the police, who as always work to keep the underclass under control.

This world is so radically different that the only clues we are not dealing with a secondary world fantasy are a few words in Maori and some Mandarin dialogue. The history recounted does not resemble the history readers know. Unhappily, some of the repression does.

The protagonist, Yat, is someone who grew up from a disadvantaged kid, to a discriminated against cop with a drug habit and not a lot of introspection. She knows she gets …