Sometimes the perfect book just happens to find you, ticking all the boxes you want for a review even before you knew those boxes needed ticking. I have been hearing the name Darcie Little Badger echoing around the literary landscape for about two years now since her first novel, Elatsoe, was listed in Time Magazine’s collection of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. Later, I read the Love After the End anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead along with Angela of the Literature Science Alliance which featured her post-climate change apocalyptic short story “Story For a Bottle”.
While searching for September’s book, I decided to look for Little Badger, originally intending to review Elatsoe. But then I noticed that she has since published another novel that has been rapidly racking up awards and critical acclaim. That novel was A Snake Falls to Earth.