Also, importantly, I should say that I nearly backed out on the first page when I saw that it was written in first person, present tense, but then I realized that there is a brilliant reason for it and had stopped noticing within the first five pages. I'm not entirely satisfied with the depth of the world-building or character development, but the story itself was satisfying enough that I didn't want to put it down. This book is largely fast-moving action-adventure with an action-plot-relevant romantic subplot. Sword & Silk publishing's mission is to publish feminist works, and while I had never heard of them before this, I like that Unravel takes the usual patriarchal trope of girls slogging through an endless tedium of handwork and turns it on its head. This is the first time I've ever read a novel from the pov of a Deaf protagonist, and also the first time I've read anything from a Kickstarted publisher.
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