The Book of Elsewhere: Review

Welp, let’s try this out.

What’s your favorite story with an immortal/godlike protagonist deigning to walk among men?

Mine’s Superman when he takes his time to sit with people and tell them they matter.

That Spider-Man cowboy bebop comic comes to mind too.
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If you feel like picking up Book of Elsewhere, here's a link. You can check it out through the amazon-affiliation thing which gives me a small percentage if you buy it or don't. Whatever you want. I'd mainly suggest you read a sample before purchase if you purchase. Libraries are free.
https://amzn.to/3YY7Wan

Check out your library or local bookstore.
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As someone who’s read a lot of scifi and fantasy, but also just reads a lot in general, my time/energy investment is higher than a casual readers. So for books like this the question is: is it a gimmick or actually good?

Yeah. Whether or not you should buy it will depend on your mileage as a reader but I’d say this is pretty “don’t read that often” friendly. Read the samples, though. Always. They’re free. Also, get a library card.

If Keanu Reevess’ name was not attached, this would still be a good piece of fiction. This book also has China Miéville’s name on it, who is not as well known, but is obviously a great and established writer. He was more telling for what quality I expected going in. I am eager to dig up an interview on their writing process to see if there are certain “bits” that belonged to one and not the other. To whoever wrote the prologue: I said what I said.

I should clarify that there IS some action in this book, but that’s not the priority. When you get to it, it’s pretty late game and very reminiscent of any third act of a mystery investigative novel you’ve read. Like I said, this was neat but also has a fairly familiar structure as its backbone. That’s not a bad thing, just setting expectations.

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