A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie CathrallMy Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
This second part of The Sunken Archive duology was just as delightful as the first. Written in epistolary style, I really enjoy how Cathrall, yet again, trusts the reader to figure out the mystery. While sometimes it may feel like nothing is happening, as a reader you are getting the information along with the protagonists and getting to be one of the scholars solving this mystery.
The world building is divine and the atmosphere of the whole book is so well written. I want to live in this undersea/deep space world and just study stuff all day. The characters are well developed and the love story sub-plot is the sweetest you could dream up. The only ding I would offer is that the ending feels a little rushed. About 70% through a whole bunch of exposition races us to the finale. Given that I could happily ready this cozy sci-fi/fantasy story forever, this pacing what a little disappointing.
Published on 6 May 2025 by Orbit Books
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