The story has an interesting premise where the female protagonist, Li Shen, finds herself in a dream-like world and works to demystify it. And while I'm only around 60 pages in I'm closing the book.
Without giving away any spoilers I'll just say the following:
- Conflict is mostly between people but is not very physical. It's more about perceptions and feelings (control, purpose, insights emotional validation, that sort of thing). In other words, trying to figure out the good vs bad people, picking sides, and trying to be recognized for one's intentions, character and worth.
- Emotional descriptions are micro coded. For example, the author pays attention to spacings between opponents, eye flutter, gaze, tone of smiles, that sort of thing.
- Aggression mostly resolves through dialog. The physical aggression that does take place is mostly meaningless. Under usual circumstances, characters can be hurt but not killed.
There is death but the deaths are generally mysterious due to certain parties understanding the rules of the space better than the protagonist. Mostly though, it's about Li Shen stumbling around blind in a dark and dismal space while she works through her feelings about herself, her possible romantic interests while a bunch of people mysteriously die.
Anyway, not for me, but might be for you.
The story has an interesting premise where the female protagonist, Li Shen, finds herself in a dream-like world and works to demystify it. And while I'm only around 60 pages in I'm closing the book.
Without giving away any spoilers I'll just say the following:
- Conflict is mostly between people but is not very physical. It's more about perceptions and feelings (control, purpose, insights emotional validation, that sort of thing). In other words, trying to figure out the good vs bad people, picking sides, and trying to be recognized for one's intentions, character and worth.
- Emotional descriptions are micro coded. For example, the author pays attention to spacings between opponents, eye flutter, gaze, tone of smiles, that sort of thing.
- Aggression mostly resolves through dialog. The physical aggression that does take place is mostly meaningless. Under usual circumstances, characters can be hurt but not killed.
There is death but the deaths are generally mysterious due to certain parties understanding the rules of the space better than the protagonist. Mostly though, it's about Li Shen stumbling around blind in a dark and dismal space while she works through her feelings about herself, her possible romantic interests while a bunch of people mysteriously die.
Anyway, not for me, but might be for you.
