genre: science fiction
Patricia has know since she was a little girl that magic exists. Her lonely existence was buoyed by this fact, even without her being able to access that magic. Patricia's friendship with her classmate, the enigmatic super genius Laurence, will not just lead her to the magic she so desperately wants, but it will put both of them on a trajectory that will pit two warring factions against each other in the possibly disastrous scramble to save the world.
I grabbed this from the thrift store because it 1. had birds on the cover and 2. had won the Nebula Award. It is a genre-defying story, in some ways, with crazy science fiction pitted against witches and spells. Our two main characters are complicated and often not genuinely likable but they are interesting in ways that intrigued me. There were some interesting ethical ideas here about WHO gets to decide how to save our dying earth and what losses are a cost worth paying. It went so much slower than I'd have thought - by the end it felt cohesive enough but for some reason, until the last maybe 15% of the book, it felt like a slog despite my curiosity and enjoyment. My twelves year old son asked me about it just now and when I described my feelings he said to me, "So it was high-key mid?" And I think he might be right.
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