Minor thoughts on The Split Worlds

[sawyl]

I'll probably have more to say once I'm done, but one and a half books in I find that I absolutely love Emma Newman's Split Worlds novels. I particularly like the way she declines to pull her punches over Cathy's horrible forced marriage — the fact that her groom is, by his own standards, a particularly enlightened chauvinist in no way compensates for the fact that his attitudes are two centuries out of date — making the outcome, insofar as I've read at least, genuinely shocking.