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The Sourwood
This is an inventive story with an unusual premise: its characters are all insects, who have organized to survive in a post-human world. The story follows Fig, as a series of bad luck and bad decisions cause him to question his most basic beliefs. The world the characters inhabit is fully-formed and quite believable. This book is the first in a series of novellas, and the ending is a cliffhanger more than an end, but the writing was good enough and the story was enjoyable enough that I am willing to overlook that, and just move on to the next book in the series.
Favorite Thing:
The detailed and believable world the author has constructed
Book Length:
Shorter
Part of Series:
Part of a series of short stories/novellas
Stand Alone:
No
Stickiness:
Moderate
