Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

[james_davis_nicoll]

A knack for picking things apart ensures a young man a life of thrilling adventure... as quarry for a malevolent mastermind.

Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

Comments

[estrevan]

Who are, as the novel makes clear, easily manipulated into joining what they think is a revolutionary cabal.

I’m struck once again by how many oppressed minorities are able to organise together in real life, when the default assumption in fantasy is it’s impossible without some kind of outside organiser - noble or sinister according to the story. Though I guess “don’t trust would-be revolutionary leaders” is at least good anarchist advice.

[james_davis_nicoll]

It seems like the cursers organized themselves, and then the big bad stepped in and appropriated the organization for their own ends.

[neotoma]

Oh, a new Frances Hardinge novel! My favorite is A Face Like Glass, but she is an absolute master of the Jigsaw Puzzle Plot and she writes is worth trying.