Misery doesn’t believe in any of it and while she has a few powers, she thinks she is going crazy so she doesn’t mind pretending in hope of escaping The Crown who doesn’t seem to be happy with her arrival anyway. In this book, people believe that Misery is the messiah they’ve been waiting for and that she will help the religious faithful in the mech war against the heretics. I’m being vague on purpose because I don’t want to say who it is because Misery’s relationship with this person, whom she has real feelings for, is one of the only real relationships that she has in the whole book so it is too important to give away. Misery sleeps with people with he/him pronouns but has her main relationship with someone who uses she/her.

Sexuality is very fluid and it is not even spoken about with any issues. I saw that some readers didn’t like reading all the pronouns but I thought it was interesting since I have never seen so many used in the same book. I noticed that some people didn’t care for this but because of computer chip implants, everyone’s pronouns are always introduced when new characters are introduced to each other.

Sometimes Yang could get you close enough so you would feel what Misery was feeling, other times I was too far away and I was only being told what Misery was experiencing instead. Coming from someone that actually loves first person and close psychic distance to the main character, this type of faraway feeling from the main character would really irk me at times. It’s not one of those books that you have no idea what you are reading, I understood everything but I had to read carefully.Īnother issue that I think slowed down the pace of reading for me was the third-person narrative form of storytelling from a character that is not the main character. This book was pretty hardcore sci-fi and you had to read things carefully so you could catch everything that was going on. I read Iron Widow, another mech book this year and I flew through it as it was mostly just entertainment. While this book had some great action moments, it was a slower read.

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The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang