It’s such a smooth transition when I think back on it that I’m actually envious of her skill. Throughout the entire story, it’s almost as if a camera is slowly zooming out to reveal more and more depth and layers to the world. Point two: the world building here starts with a narrow focus and slowly eases its way out. In fact, I even grew to prefer this particular POV style to the other, more common third person ones. It was synonymous with the main character’s name. But within minutes (and for my slow pace that’s like a page) “you” was simply a character, and I thought no more of it. As is the case with any story that speaks directly to the reader or a character using “you”, it is at first slightly jarring. Yes, that’s right, this is a very successful use of second person POV (point of view). You can feel the authenticity radiating off the page.The language choices (within the beautiful writing).The world is itself a mystery to uncover.(All the Hugo Awards they received should be a clue that I’m not alone in thinking this). This book-this story-, and I still surprise myself when I say this, is honestly unlike anything I’ve read in this genre before. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.
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