![]() ![]() ![]() The point is, these characters are funny. Some of the more normal ones, which I got used to eventually, include Three Seagrass, One Lightning, and Two Rosewood. Teixcalaani names all start with a number and then include some kind of object or plant, but that name is just absurd. LET’S HEAR IT FOR QUIPS!Īnd the characters! The first time I laughed out loud at this book was the moment our two main characters make fun of someone seriously named Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle. Martine manages to integrate a James Bond, John Wick-esque tone into a fully-fledged Science Fiction political thriller, and I am in awe. ![]() ![]() In order to protect her home, Mahit dodges assassination attempts, solves murder mysteries, makes shady deals with resistance figures, and weaves a delicate political dance that assumes an intelligent and keyed-in reader. The whole book is threaded with the urgency of an uber-powerful empire in tumult. Mahit’s foreignness is just another obstacle to a whirlwind book that somehow manages to be political, philosophical, and intensely fast-paced and action-packed. The constant attention to linguistic meaning-as well as through facial expression, body language, and ceremony-turns a brilliantly imagined universe into something that feels real and challenging. In Teixcalaani, the word for “city” also means “the world” and also means “empire.” Through our heroine Mahit, a foreigner “barbarian” to the heart of the vast Teixcalaani empire, the reader learns about a vibrant, fascinating, wholly original culture through its language. ![]()
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