Well I am definitely buying this right now. The books you really rave over tend to end up as some of my absolute favorites and this one sounds really interesting.
Yay! This review makes me even more glad I picked this up on Audible this morning. It's the Deal of the Day today (Jan 12th). Go grab it for cheap friends & followers of Amal!
Oh my god Amal, this sounds amazing and like something I need in my eyeballs RIGHT NOW I mean you know my life and I'm having FEELINGS without having actually read the book.
I really enjoyed Hench with remarkably few quibbles (I sometimes feel like I quibble with everything these days), and extremely hope for a sequel (or two!). It feels like Robin McKinley's Sunshine to me in terms of stand-aloneness; it sets up further story, I want more loose ends tied up, but I won't love it less if that doesn't happen.
I read it with The Space Between Worlds still on my mind and those are very interesting when placed together. I file my books (& cds, when I still kept cds) by association in a way which is probably inscrutable outside my own head, but I would probably place Hench between The Space Between Worlds and The Refrigerator Diaries ('would', as I don't presently own hard copies of any of the above). I am extremely here for these brilliant, furious novels commenting on modern employment, office, temp, & gig jobs, class, disability... They're incandescent and they make space for something inside me to unclench enough to think about screaming the way that they scream.
I read it off of your recommendation on twitter, and even if none of the above was true it was so worth it for the disability rep. I don't even know how to talk about that, it was so vital.
Also, love me a bisexual character not afraid to lust over a variety of pretty people and get crushes on awesome folks readily & often. Also love that [spoiler] she doesn't actually have sex with any of them; I feel like 'mostly happy to lust from afar' & 'events intervened and that's so not the priority' are things which also don't get enough rep! That's another thing I really appreciated about Hench & The Space Between Worlds - good disaster bi rep! In quite different ways.
Part of me is just completely boggled by having what feels like really relevant representation in all those ways. It's so wonderful and flabbergasting to read books that look and feel like me and my friends and communities? (Diverse & queer & disabled & struggling & badass & so, so full of wrath.) It's just amazing and I love it so much.
Well I am definitely buying this right now. The books you really rave over tend to end up as some of my absolute favorites and this one sounds really interesting.
I loved this book. It was so refreshing!
Yay! This review makes me even more glad I picked this up on Audible this morning. It's the Deal of the Day today (Jan 12th). Go grab it for cheap friends & followers of Amal!
Oh my god Amal, this sounds amazing and like something I need in my eyeballs RIGHT NOW I mean you know my life and I'm having FEELINGS without having actually read the book.
I really enjoyed Hench with remarkably few quibbles (I sometimes feel like I quibble with everything these days), and extremely hope for a sequel (or two!). It feels like Robin McKinley's Sunshine to me in terms of stand-aloneness; it sets up further story, I want more loose ends tied up, but I won't love it less if that doesn't happen.
I read it with The Space Between Worlds still on my mind and those are very interesting when placed together. I file my books (& cds, when I still kept cds) by association in a way which is probably inscrutable outside my own head, but I would probably place Hench between The Space Between Worlds and The Refrigerator Diaries ('would', as I don't presently own hard copies of any of the above). I am extremely here for these brilliant, furious novels commenting on modern employment, office, temp, & gig jobs, class, disability... They're incandescent and they make space for something inside me to unclench enough to think about screaming the way that they scream.
I read it off of your recommendation on twitter, and even if none of the above was true it was so worth it for the disability rep. I don't even know how to talk about that, it was so vital.
Also, love me a bisexual character not afraid to lust over a variety of pretty people and get crushes on awesome folks readily & often. Also love that [spoiler] she doesn't actually have sex with any of them; I feel like 'mostly happy to lust from afar' & 'events intervened and that's so not the priority' are things which also don't get enough rep! That's another thing I really appreciated about Hench & The Space Between Worlds - good disaster bi rep! In quite different ways.
Part of me is just completely boggled by having what feels like really relevant representation in all those ways. It's so wonderful and flabbergasting to read books that look and feel like me and my friends and communities? (Diverse & queer & disabled & struggling & badass & so, so full of wrath.) It's just amazing and I love it so much.