A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers
Received to review via Netgalley
Since reading imyril’s thoughts about Sibling Dex and their selfishness, I couldn’t stop thinking about it when reading this book. I think maybe I’d have continued to not notice, but maybe not, since some things were flagged up (e.g. Dex lying to their family so as not to worry them) or really obviously rude (e.g. Dex happily going off the road with Mosscap when people are expecting them).
Broadly speaking it’s still a pleasant reading experience, but the best part is really the sustainable world, the fact that everyone has enough, that people who don’t subscribe to binary gender are blithely accepted, where people live mostly in harmony. And it’s also an exploration of doing what you love and are good at, and still somehow feeling a need for another purpose, or for something else — that’s Dex’s whole problem, really, though it’s not so clear in this book aside from the ending.
Overall enjoyable, but I can’t stop seeing Dex’s selfishness now!
