Review of Axiom’s End
After Awoken , Lindsay Ellis will always be suspect. Alien romance has been done. It is a common theme on Star Trek : -Dr. Bashir we have discovered a new life form. -Does it fuck? Dr. Bashir is a slut. There are vampire romances, werewolf romances, zombie romances… In Awoken the love interest is Cthulhu. -As she fell into his arms, arms, arms. -There were tentacles where no tentacle should ever go. In Axiom’s End , the protagonist Cora, recovering from a malignant narcissist father, falls for a manipulative extraterrestrial war refugee, Asterisk. Asterisk confuses her squeamishness over killing him with kindness. Get very nervous if someone regards you as kind or nice. Asterisk resembles a grass hopper Dr. Seuss character. Asterisk’s appeal is kind of a cuddly networked dildo, not much privacy, almost as good as a lesbian. The couple overcommit right away. Cora keeps assuming that Asterisk regards us as savage. She doesn’t consider that he is projecting. I had dif...