Throughout the book, the narrator dabbles in the outputs of the mysterious Datura plant someone has given her.
Well, people with belief sets that depart considerably from the norm. Just as with Claire O’Beara’s Dining Out series, Leena Krohn gets her protagonist into all sorts of situations. One of the things about using a newspaper person, whether journalist or editor, in a SFF book, is the storyline opportunities abound. Where will it all end? Pushed by the mysterious owner of the magazine, our narrator may wind up somewhere very strange indeed. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Especially if you’re eating datura seeds. Our narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar.įrom a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that reality may not be as logical as you think-and that people are both odder and more ordinary as they might seem.
So I’ve not only added a K to my Alphabet Challenge, but another to my TBR Mountain, which is looking slightly more achievable now.ĭatura also confirms all my prejudices about the plant, which I detest. I originally got it in a storybundle, and it’s been lurking on my TBR for 5 years. Leena Krohn is an award-winning Finnish author, but much of the time this story could be set in any big city. I mean that in a good way – it fits into the subgenre of Fantasy/scifi of ‘weird’.
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