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And What Can We Offer You Tonight
by Premee Mohamed
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love books that just come out of nowhere and knock you right in the emo chemical dispensing center of the brain .
The prose alone had me inlove with this story. Not too lyrical, comfortable and deeply gothic - and it's still scifi. It's painful, dark and oh so beautiful. Oh and the fact that the canal in this Venice-like watered city is filled with the bodies of the dead (not a serial killer but willing water burials) just gives it a hopeless and helpless dire feel to it.
4.75 ⭐ not to worry, the .75 shows up on my Storygraph.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Somebody said the dead need to stay dead. But I think there must be a caveat - dead stay dead except for vengeance. I love a good vengeance plot.
Maybe a god said: Not everybody deserves to be alive. But you do. And he doesn't. - Winfield
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
I started out pitying the Jewel, Winfield, Nero but how insensitive and condescending of me. The courtesans/prostitues who live in the brothel House Biccheiri who've had no voice, no agency, aren't allowed to scream, or cry must only submit. And yet, they possess a strength, some indomitable spirit to have survived, endured this long and man are they resilient.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
A couple of stellar moments:
☆Winfield's Resurrection. It was moody and dark and the trauma of the courtesans is so great they felt no fear they just rolled with it.
☆Winfield's deciding moment: He can try to unmake me," she says. "But he cannot unperson me. I will always be who I am.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “We have not even given our god a name. Maybe in another thousand years.” (Funeral procession to a watery Church)
🖤 “Imagine Beowulf showing up only to discover the Danes protecting Grendel, guarding him while he eats their people..” (On the rich getting away with murder )
🖤 “she looks radiant, not alive, something else, brimming with light. The light of vengeance, I think with a little twist of envy. The light of fury. I” (on the formidable Winfield)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ Dinoflagellates, Phlebuttons
■ The Cull: open season killing.
■ Neo-Nobility
■Planet Buying(shameful rich)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025
The prose alone had me inlove with this story. Not too lyrical, comfortable and deeply gothic - and it's still scifi. It's painful, dark and oh so beautiful. Oh and the fact that the canal in this Venice-like watered city is filled with the bodies of the dead (not a serial killer but willing water burials) just gives it a hopeless and helpless dire feel to it.
4.75 ⭐ not to worry, the .75 shows up on my Storygraph.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Somebody said the dead need to stay dead. But I think there must be a caveat - dead stay dead except for vengeance. I love a good vengeance plot.
Maybe a god said: Not everybody deserves to be alive. But you do. And he doesn't. - Winfield
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
I started out pitying the Jewel, Winfield, Nero but how insensitive and condescending of me. The courtesans/prostitues who live in the brothel House Biccheiri who've had no voice, no agency, aren't allowed to scream, or cry must only submit. And yet, they possess a strength, some indomitable spirit to have survived, endured this long and man are they resilient.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
A couple of stellar moments:
☆Winfield's Resurrection. It was moody and dark and the trauma of the courtesans is so great they felt no fear they just rolled with it.
☆Winfield's deciding moment: He can try to unmake me," she says. "But he cannot unperson me. I will always be who I am.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “We have not even given our god a name. Maybe in another thousand years.” (Funeral procession to a watery Church)
🖤 “Imagine Beowulf showing up only to discover the Danes protecting Grendel, guarding him while he eats their people..” (On the rich getting away with murder )
🖤 “she looks radiant, not alive, something else, brimming with light. The light of vengeance, I think with a little twist of envy. The light of fury. I” (on the formidable Winfield)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ Dinoflagellates, Phlebuttons
■ The Cull: open season killing.
■ Neo-Nobility
■Planet Buying(shameful rich)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025