A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Kinda a gorgeous book. The descriptions and the prose were beautiful and every sentence was vivid. It was succinct without making me feel like something was missing and it was just long enough to deliver its message. I also felt like the message was pretty neat and the way the book “shows not tells it” worked well for me. It was also the first book that I've read that was so deliberate about pronouns! I appreciated that the book did it without being super like “HEY LOOK WHAT IM DOING” about it.

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There were a couple things that annoyed me though. There was a bit of “manic pixie dream girl” energy with the relationship between the robot, Mosscap, and our protagonist, Dex. Dex kept broadening his expectations and horizons thanks to their relationship and it just felt like sort of formulaic in that regard.