So the book has an environmental message.ĭex is one of those people who are driven by a need to prove themselves. What we find instead is that Dex’s world is one in which the human (or human-analogue) inhabitants have stepped back from industrialisation and are trying to live in harmony with nature. Immediately we have discovered that this is a society that recognises three genders, though how that works is not explored in this book. Our lead character, Sibling Dex, is a monk in the service of Allalae, the God of Small Comforts, represented by a bear. We don’t get detail about the six gods mentioned, but there’s enough to get a sense of what the people in the book will believe. But this can mask the amount of thought that she puts into her work.Ī Psalm for the Wild-Built begins with mention of an entirely new religion. Her prose is effortlessly readable and deeply caring. It is Hugo reading time, and that means catching up with Becky Chambers.
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