Moggie wants to read Firmament by Simon Clark

Firmament by Simon Clark
A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique …
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A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique …
This thing is billed as a romance but it's more of a supernatural mystery. Yeah, the plot depends on people being willing to sacrifice their lives for love, but there's never a clear sense of why they'd care for each other that much.
The plot might be more understandable if you grew up with Christian iconography, but I didn't. There are a lot of demons and angels running around, behaving in ways that don't make much sense to me.
This is not something I'd have chosen on my own. Decided to participate in #queerromanceclub reading group on Mastodon, and this is the book that won the vote for what we'd all read and discuss in January. Here's hoping I like it!
I've never talked about a book with a group of people before so it'll be an interesting experience. (Group is open for anyone who wants to participate, by the way.)
I've read about half of this and probably won't finish it. That's mainly due to lack of time currently, and the fact that it's printed. I don't really have a comfortable spot to read anything that doesn't have backlighting.
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …