AN ENDLESS VOID. A POWERFUL ANOMALY. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.
When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. To survive, she fled into the void, a seemingly infinite nothingness where few dare venture, filled with floating, vertically stacked rocks. Some of these rocks are giant magnets, some burn with eternal flame and some are influenced by the presence of seemingly magical objects—anomalies that defy physical laws.
For half a lifetime, The Sinker has wandered the void on a quest for knowledge, for understanding and for peace. But when rumours reach her that The Construct is near again, she knows fate has come full circle. With the help of Crooked Arm—the heir to a shattered throne, who happens to possess the most powerful anomaly of all—the two of them set out on a mission to end the tyranny of The Construct forever.
From one of the visionary writers of the Netflix series The OA comes a reality unlike anything you have ever encountered before.
If you’re ready, enter the void…
THE FACTS
📙 amazing world building
📘 original concept
📗 unfolds like myth or legend
📕 dark in a way but still hopeful
THE THEMES
🔴 fathers and their children
🔵 the power of myths
🟣 hope
THE GOOD BITS
Voidverse wasn’t at all what I expected. Then again, I’m not entirely sure I had much of an idea of what to expect. I do love some good science fiction and when I began to hear some buzz about this novel I decided to get it.
I loved Damien Ober’s writing style. It’s very smooth, not at all jarring and the story flowed at a perfect pace for me.
This is a story about families (both blood and found), the power of myths, leaving home, finding home and hope. It’s a wonderful journey to an original world that exists in a void. Within the void are different rocks that have unique communities. Some people choose the brave step of sinking to other worlds.
There were so many unique things in this story. I particularly loved the way time was measured in rests. I also was really impressed by the descriptions of the sink… the sensation. I found while I was reading it I could imagine the sound and the falling so clearly.
“She was gone from where she was and somewhere else instead.”
I also listened to the audio book, and the narrator is very talented. There was a marked distinction between characters and great pacing.
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I was provided with an ARC of The Darkness Bites Back by Laura R. Samotin and Ben Alderson via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
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