Week 9 Review: Tidal Creatures

From Goodreads:

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City…

New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame and Seasonal Fears.

All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City—the heart of all creation—to keep it connected to reality.

And someone is killing them.

There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren't limitless.

In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks—control of the Impossible City itself.

My Review:
I had such a fantastic time reading this book! I love her writing so much, and this world is so strange and weird and I was excited to go on this latest adventure! The first two books were almost stand alone plots, all connected to this world, and I loved how this book tied in!  

I don't fully remember Seasonal Fears, so I'm not sure if the alchemists played much of a role, but in this book, it defines what the series conflict is, I'm pretty sure, the race to the Impossible City, and who is going to be in control. We did get that in Middlegame, but then, we didn't really know what was going on, and now we do.

I really enjoyed the perspectives that we got in this book, with Judy, an incarnate of Chang'e, one goddess of the moon, Kelpie, a lab tech for the alchemists that learns some brutal truths, and how their stories came together, with the alchemists wanting to get to the Impossible City through the Lunars. It was so fantastic! 

Things are coming together in this book. I'm not sure how long the series is going to be, besides at least 4 books because it can't end here, but the conflict between the alchemists, and basically everybody else who isn't an alchemist, espcailly the ones that know about them, well, I want to see the alchemists wiped out because of just how horrid they are. 

This was an amazing book and I can't wait to read more by Seanan McGuire! 

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: Alchemical Journeys #1 
Read: February 28th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Tordotcom
Expected Publication: June 4th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars