The Raven, the god of Iraden, inhabits the physical body of a raven. In The Raven Tower, gods draw power from offerings, turning religion and worship into an almost transactional affair. Jemisin as a recent example) and I’m all for it. Eolo is our protagonist-or rather, the person into whose shoes we are invited to step, as he is the person addressed by the narrator as ‘you.’ I think (but I’m willing to be proven wrong) that there’s been a recent uptick in speculative fiction narratives written in the second person (the incomparable Broken Earth series by N. The characters, as in all of Leckie’s work, are fascinating. At the point where Leckie draws together apparently disparate narrative threads, she does so with supreme gusto in a moment that made me rewind the audiobook to check I’d heard it right.
I will not spoil the details, because the slow unwinding and revelation of the story is part and parcel of its brilliance. The Raven Tower is presented as a single, continuous narrative, with a narrator who’s present in the story. Her new novel, The Raven Tower, is a departure into fantasy, and it is quite simply remarkable in its ambition and its voice.
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