Among Others

Walton made a space to show us all how to grow into ourselves in a world that wants to force you into a predetermined shape. Mori is living with grief and loss and self-discovery, and finding the boundaries of her needs and wants. Never has a magic system made so much intuitive sense to this reader, and rarely have a I found a book that demonstrates so well how to grow into yourself. The epigraph is something about what you would tell your past teenage self—that it will get better, that people will love you. And the whole narrative demonstrates this, as well as providing a delicious reading list of classic science fiction and fantasy novels. Walton has made a fully-realized character as well as crafting strong sentence structure and using rich descriptive settings.