Rakesfall

Surreal, lyrical, beautiful, haunting – featuring a heady mélange of narrative forms and storytelling styles – Rakesfall is an evocative epic poem of a novel.  It’s impossible to distill Vajra Chandrasekera’s sprawling opus into any short plot synopsis (so kudos to whoever wrote the publisher’s summa......more

2.5 stars How do I even rate this book? I think it set out to do something really interesting but accomplished almost nothing. I really have to sit with my thoughts on this one. Full review to come......more

What did I just read!?!? Rakesfall is a story that takes place across lifetimes, reincarnations, histories, cultures, worlds, dimensions, and pocket dimensions. It follows two souls, which is probably the most appropriate way to describe them, named, initially, Leveret and Annelid. It follows them st......more

Thank you so much to Tor for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Written in several vaguely connected, uniquely formatted short stories, two souls keep meeting and being torn apart throughout time in a world where the ghosts of the dead live their undead lives among the living. I was s......more

As a huge fan of the author’s debut, of course I had to request this arc! Vajra Chandrasekera’s mastery with words is unmatched. And it definitely shows in this work. But unlike The Saint of Bright Doors, Rakesfall is unfortunately a lot less cohesive and a lot more difficult to fully understand. It......more