Hugo Novella Wrap Up & Winner Reaction | 2023

So, there's some really cool elements in here about like what is fate and are you tied to a fate and is evil and are heroes and like all of this stuff. but it was just like fine.

And I really like Adrian Tchaikovsky's writing and I loved Elder Race last year which was nominated for a Hugo.

This is a novella that I found very fun. I really enjoyed this. I gave this one four out of five stars.

This had like so many characters and so many elements kind of going on that it got very muddled and I forgot most of this plot in the way that I haven't for the first two. So, this one wasn't my favorite of all of them. Still fine though, 3.5 stars.

I found the plot like just again kind of lacking and just sort of like tropy in a way that wasn't fun. And just like again a story I've heard before, but heard told better by different other dystopian stories. and the ending was just kind of like So this was a two star to me.

For at least The Empress of Salt and Fortune robbed.

Very visceral, lots of like body horror type stuff, like very creepy in that way. I love this one. I gave this like a 4.25 to a 4.5 star.

so this one was like I didn't love this installment. It was fine. I don't love Cora as a character.