Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
5⭐ Probably my favorite read of the year. Beautiful writing combined with gorgeous world-building and a stunningly original storyline. I was captivated before I even started this book. What do you mean you're running across a country with a goddess? From the get go, this book impressed me with how stylistically unique it is with the inverted theater, and the folktale-esque narration. The writing is smooth and accessible but still manages to be lyrical. 'This is a love story to its blade-dented bone'. What a glorious promise to make. And the book lives up to it. To the discerning eye, there is something about love and humanity that bleeds through each page. The characters are written with finesse and a deep appreciation of the beauty in our inevitable mortality. Each conversation is like looking into a well and seeing yourself anew. The pervasive sense of aching desperation and wistfulness in the book gives it a strange touch of personal familiarity. I was quite annoyed whe...
