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Finished it over the weekend. Despite descriptions being just a line or two, I still got a good sense of everything, thanks to other, strongly evocative lines (like you expect from poetry). In that way, I liked it quite a bit, and will happily try other verse novels in future.
However, in terms of story, I don’t think my opinion of Dark Star rises above “fine”. The noir aspect was about what you’d expect, but the worldbuilding (billed as scifi) was too much–or not enough?–dream logic to work for me. Reminded me a fair bit of A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon, which I also didn’t really jive with.
Still working on Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova. It’s fun so far.
Also started Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin. It’s not at all what I thought it was going to be (it’s less horror, more supernatural angst), but the writing is good. Their other book is listed as new adult, and I think that probably describes this, as well.
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Finished Dark Star by Oliver K. Langmead. Review is in last week’s thread.
Bingo squares: Plays With Words, What’s Yours Is Mine (HM), Mashup, Among the Stars (HM) (technically).