The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
by N.K. Jemisin
Thoughtful fantasy I actually liked! I'm firmly on the side of the old lady, though. "I want every moment of my life, pretty man, the painful and the sweet alike. Until the very end. If these are all the memories I get... I want to take as many of them with me as I can." I don't think Jemisin agrees, which means issues about euthanasia as it intersects with physical disability are underexplored/underproblematized IMO. Mental health/neurodivergence is handled more thoughtfully.
The Killing Moon almost functions as a mystery, but multiple viewpoints trip things up a bit. You often find things out from one POV and in the next chapter have the same thing revealed to another set of POV characters, which feels anticlimactic.
What is it with the formal way people speak in fantasy novels? Is that a thing? I was noticing it a lot in the early part of this book.