A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot 2)

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Whilst they navigate their way through Panga, they also navigate their way to understanding and acceptance of one another. Becky Chambers is fantastic at expressing so precisely things I can talk about endlessly: like the transformative power of love and queer community, the beauty and strangeness of how we eke meaning out of our surroundings, and how joy and beauty can sometimes be so mundane that, in that simplicity, they become utterly radical.

Perhaps this is an intentional feeling by Chambers: after all, people enter our lives, impact us, and then leave all the time.We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. Chambers' writing is always tender and healing, but this book has something else braided into it -- something more. Her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, was originally funded via Kickstarter in 2012.

The hard climb to Hart’s Brow was more than a week behind them, but Dex’s body was still feeling it, and they had made no secret of this. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is maybe less of a continuation in feel, and more of one that explores the flip side of the relationship between Dex and Mosscap.The first book in Chambers' new series feels like a moment to breathe, a novel that exists to give readers a place to rest and think. Mosscap, too, comes off as a little bit needier in this book, which can be a bit of an annoyance because it seemed to be so wise in the first book.