I just finished Lifelode (Jo Walton) so that I could respond to this post :P It's a secondary-world fantasy about some very nice cozy domestic people living in a four-person poly arrangement. There is some interesting worldbuilding, and at the end some exciting fantasy plot happens! But that plot seems to happen fairly slowly and mostly at the end.
I liked it -- I had some reservations about some other parts of it (e.g., the title concept) -- and I didn't think it was nearly as odd as The Grounding of Group Six sounds -- but I am a little surprised that it got published at all. Like, "very nice cozy domestic poly people where not much overt Fantasy Plot happens until near the end," although it is catnip for me personally, doesn't seem to me to be a super hot ticket item for most publishers.
...Well, I wrote the above and... looking at the publication, it looks like it was printed by NESFA and hasn't in fact been picked up by a bigger publisher, so okay, that does actually make some sense. :)
ETA: Another one: This one's for mildred_of_midgard: Orfe, by Cynthia Voigt, a modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Orfe (a woman) is a rock band singer whose schtick is that she projectile vomits on stage. It is weird!
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Date: 2019-05-02 04:59 am (UTC)I liked it -- I had some reservations about some other parts of it (e.g., the title concept) -- and I didn't think it was nearly as odd as The Grounding of Group Six sounds -- but I am a little surprised that it got published at all. Like, "very nice cozy domestic poly people where not much overt Fantasy Plot happens until near the end," although it is catnip for me personally, doesn't seem to me to be a super hot ticket item for most publishers.
...Well, I wrote the above and... looking at the publication, it looks like it was printed by NESFA and hasn't in fact been picked up by a bigger publisher, so okay, that does actually make some sense. :)
ETA: Another one: This one's for