No Gods, No Monsters

I had a tougher time getting into this novel than Turnbull's first, The Lesson. It's another sprawling novel with many characters and shifting points of view. After reading the book, I found an entry the author made in Goodreads that offers things to realize while reading. I wish I had found it earlier as it might have helped a bit. Having finished it and seeing where the book is going (it's the first of a proposed trilogy), I get it, but the journey there was a little frustrating. This book won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award. It is chock full of diverse characters: trans, queer, asexual, non-binary, straight. There are people of color. None of the diversity is a major feature of the book, simply a part of the characters. The main character is the community of inclusion.

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