Comfort Me with Apples

Comfort Me with Apples

2021 • 112 pages

Ratings166

Average rating3.5

15

This was a neat little story and well written but I personally am so bored and irritated with the “‘it's a mystery and what's going on and things are strange' buildup that leads to the ‘ohhh it was just Christianity all along' reveal” trope. It feels like such a cop-out to me to build and create a whole new world that has so many possibilities and then have the explanation behind it be “oh right, Christianity.” I really liked the writing and would read other things by this author, I'm just always so let down when a book relies on the most pervasive and tired occult force in the world whose supremacy is already integrated into everything in existence as a way to explain an otherwise inventive plotline away.

January 22, 2023