The coincidence of snagging this series on sale1 the night before I finished Rakesfall, where Vajra Chandrasekera names Premee Mohamed in his acknowledgments.
Indeed, it plays on similar themes, albeit in an entirely different style. Here we’ve got an action-adventure race across the continents when Johnny, young super-genius inventor/do-gooder in a kind of Greta Thurnberg mold, accidentally creates such a powerful clean energy reactor that it warps space and time and calls up eldritch gods from the deep… which she knows full well because she’s made a deal with those same gods to exchange her mortality for the fame and brains to save the world. Her best friend Nick is along for the ride, and through his eyes, it’s a rumination on power and corruption, on complicity, on the fate of humanity in one young girl’s hands. Cosmic horror (and smartass banter) at its finest.
Heads up that Rebellion Publishing in the UK has really good sales on their ebooks, and if by chance more books are available to customers in the UK, a VPN does the trick 😉 ↩︎