Metal From Heaven

Blurbs about this book say, “If you like Gideon the Ninth and Princess Bride, you’ll love…”  Well, I hated the first, loved the second, so I went in hesitantly.  The Princess Bride similarity was the obsessive devotion of the main character to her childhood love.  The Gideon the Ninth similarity was the incomprehensibility of what was going on.  A lot happens to Marney, the main character.  Through it all, she keeps her eye on the prize: revenge on the magnate who ordered the shooting into the crowd of protesting factory workers, killing her whole family and her lover.  Unfortunately, this plot takes a wild, meandering road to achieve its climax.  And then the book gets weird.  Some found this book brilliant.  I found it confusing yet strangely intriguing.  This is another 2025 Lambda Literary Award nominee for Speculative Fiction.  I don’t find this book particularly worthy, but it feels like the author really, really tried their best.

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