The book is set far in the future, about ten thousand years after humanity fled the earth to try to survive in space. Misery has hallucinations, or sees a spirit she calls Ruin - an incessant voice in her head that tries to guide her toward her destiny.
Her backstory, and along with it, quite a bit about the world and the reasons for her temperament are explored. There is a large world that needs to be explored by the story, and by Misery, and her circumstances and choices dictate much of what the reader is shown. For about the first half of the book, we are mostly following Misery's journey, though the author makes it clear that a lot is yet to happen. Misery is a nobody from a fringe duchy who has certain magical abilities that can be attributes of the saints, or of the voidmad, both of which are treated every differently in this world. Simply put, this is a story inspired by that of Joan of Arc, but set in space. It is just one that needs to be read at the right time, and if it is, I think the payoff would be worthwhile. I am here to say that this book deserves your attention.īefore I elaborate on the premise and structure of this book, I wish to clarify that though this book contains a narrative structure that ha been done many times before this, it requires so much more attention than you'd think. This is another science fiction book I read obsessively, and I think that alone says a lot about it. OVERVIEW: This is the story of Misery Nomaki, a common citizen from a mining duchy, and about how things turned out like they came to be.
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