Jeannette Ng

This was a fun exploration of a new country briefly, then a claustrophobic slog, then got really going when her brother finally turns up. Incest is not my favourite trope and "but we're not *really* siblings" doesn't really ameliorate it in my eyes but it did fit, and it crept on the reader so that by the time it became explicit it was already clearly A Thing. There were a couple of other revelations like that, starting of "hey, wait a minute" and then shortly afterwards being "yeah...." Of course I was most interested in the linguistic investigations into Enochian, and of course very little detail of that was given, but the eventual historical revelations were satisfyingly explanatory, and the resolution satisfyingly creepy.… (mehr)