Snow Kidama speaks to ghosts amongst the local gangs of Charybdis Precinct, isolated from the rest of New Arcadia by the city’s ancient walls. But when his old lover, Gem—a man he thought dead—shows up in need of his services, Snow is forced to reevaluate everything. Snow and Gem must navigate not only a city on the edge of collapse, but also their feelings for each other.
“Some plants thrive best when fed on blood and bone, and perhaps change is too.”
Foz Meadows' Finding Echoes is a perfectly self-contained novella, with complex worldbuilding and top-notch characterization developing over the course of a very short story. It explores with a deft hand themes of oppression and addiction, while also finding time for a bit of queer romance. Told in first person POV, this packed novella follows a lonely and wounded figure as he reckons with his past and with a threat to society, while navigating his power of being able to talk to the dead and confronting the gut-punch of a sudden revelation. I got the feeling that this might become a series of standalone novellas, not necessarily about the same characters.
✨ 4 stars
👥🦴 So you want to read about achillean men who speak with the dead?
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