Review: Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
Oct. 12th, 2022 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smalltimereadsGeneration Loss by Elizabeth Hand is published by Small Beer Press.
I love a book featuring a female protagonist on the far side of forty. Cass Neary is a washed-up almost-was, and she's jaded and tired and a complete mess of a person, and I love her. The writing is wonderfully atmospheric- cold and bleak and creepy. There wasn't a lot of time spent on the central mystery- or rather, the mystery was there throughout the story but didn't really come into proper focus until the end, which worked surprisingly well- but the climax was also wonderfully creepy. I'm looking forward to more creepy adventures for Cass.
I love a book featuring a female protagonist on the far side of forty. Cass Neary is a washed-up almost-was, and she's jaded and tired and a complete mess of a person, and I love her. The writing is wonderfully atmospheric- cold and bleak and creepy. There wasn't a lot of time spent on the central mystery- or rather, the mystery was there throughout the story but didn't really come into proper focus until the end, which worked surprisingly well- but the climax was also wonderfully creepy. I'm looking forward to more creepy adventures for Cass.
