But it’s substance, rather than style, that sets this book apart. Drayden’s prose is neither clunky nor lyrical-it just gets the job done.
The plot twists that follow are surprising but mostly plausible, and it culminates in a gratifying finish. Soon the two women each uncover shocking truths about their society and how it operates-and, more importantly, about the beast that keeps them all alive. Meanwhile, Adalla, heartbroken over losing Seske, is demoted until she’s a lowly boneworker. When Seske suddenly becomes the clan matriarch, her title is threatened by another claimant-her own sister. The chapters alternate between the first-person perspectives of the two young women, and it quickly becomes clear that Seske and Adalla are very much in love-but a beastworker isn’t considered a suitable mate for the heir apparent. Seske, the daughter of the clan matriarch, is being groomed for her eventual position of power, but she’d much rather spend her time with Adalla, her best friend since childhood however, Adalla’s a beastworker who toils in the space beast’s organs and arteries. The survivors now travel inside enormous beasts that trek across the vacuum of space human societies carve out spaces inside the living leviathans that carry them. In a far distant future, humans left Earth behind generations ago in a mass exodus. An Afrofuturist love story, set inside a giant space-creature, about two women of different castes.
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