Fish Tails

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Worries about the magnificent griffins getting cold or thirsty and so much attention to detail almost drove me mad reading this. Also, in the end, the way things were wrapped up so neatly with an 'effin bow on top was just too convenient and easy. For the waters are rising and will soon engulf the entire planet, transforming it utterly and irrevocably. Should you not find what you're looking for, please do not hesitate to reach out as we have new products launching every month.

She wanted to tie two of her main series together as a grand finale and resolution of the character's arcs because the thematic elements and her concerns are the same. Swedish Fish Tails combine 2 flavours in 1 chewy fish - the head is one fruity flavour and the tail is another!Not in a good way, like people are ambiguous and might be good or bad, oh no, there's no nuance here. I have enjoyed several other Tepper novels in the past, but am unfamiliar with the storylines continuing from A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising. She does not back away from talking about rape and other violence because they are central to her points about sexism, racism, poverty, and environmentalism.

At first, I thought that the near-duplication of conversations could be a failure of editing, but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that it could be a deliberate, meta-fictional technique to emphasize the cyclical nature of our public discussions while also reflecting the familiarity of the material in Tepper's oeuvre. After the word-for-word repetition the same story is continued with changes: obviously the manuscript was never actually read with attention by a competent editor before publication. The novel follows Abasio and Xulai from the “Plague of Angels” books as they journey the Earth warning of a coming flood which will destroy humanity. Sadly, the book suffers from its length, poor editing, and from a concluding section that relies heavily on deus ex machina in the form of an alien.This is a new Galvanised Fish Tail which is used to compliment the Armco (Corrugated) Crash Barrier by providing safety and an end piece to the system. I tried to make the story last; it did take me over two months to read, but I read other things in between. I hoped against hope that this would at least be made clear at the end, but [anti-spoiler] it's not.

Particularly, since those books seem to have been VERY different from everything she wrote in the last 27 +/- years. When these catch the light, many colours can be seen at different angles on the clear ones - pink, gold, blue. Fish Tails is a picaresque escapade of sorts that follows the protagonists of The Waters Rising as they travel through their world to spread warnings of an impending watery apocalypse. There are a lot of characters; it's not surprising that there's a little confusion - but usually it's the reader who's confused, not the author. There's no rhyme or reason for repeating so very much of the text, or for the fact that the excerpt differs in small details from the later text.

The book's garrulous characters spend so much time explaining their cultures, however, or acting as the orators of Tepper's ecofeminist brand, that the book is actually fairly free of Tepper's multi-threaded plots. It's rare to encounter authors who, over the course of several decades, remain uncompromising and so focused upon a single message. or "Xulai had told him the most difficult things about giving animals speech had been to fit words with how their brains worked rather than changing their brains so much that they would lose their coyote-ity, or their bear-ity, or their horse-ity. The editing could have been better also, the prologue is repeated verbatim a few pages in and there are lengthy dream sequences which are very repetitious.

Occasionally some of Tepper's distinctive creativity style comes through, but I can't stand this book and I hate that some will read this first and be turned off of Tepper completely. I should also mention that some readers may find Tepper's underlying message in the novel objectionable.Fish Tails is her 35th novel and serves as a sort of capstone to her career, tying her recent “Plague of Angels” trilogy with her first novels, the “True Game” series. I can't recommend this book, but for Tepper at her best, try Raising the Stones, the Gate into Women's Country, Grass, the Jinian sub-series of the True Game, or the Revenants.