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… Recommended for fans of Chambers’ Wayfarers series and The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. After A Psalm for the Wild-Built comes this tale of hope and acceptance in the second volume of the USA Today bestselling Monk and Robot series. They pulled off the road at a simple clearing built for that exact purpose, and together, Dex and Mosscap made camp. It’s a tad bit darker, as Mosscap begins to confront its mortality when a piece of it malfunctions during the events of this book.

It made me cry the good sort of tears—the sort when someone is unexpectedly kind to you at the moment you need it most. Instead, there was cream-colored paving, smooth as butter and just as warm, lined with signs people made to let other people know which way to go if they wanted to rest and eat and not be alone. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Dex is willing to accommodate everyone else’s feelings and emotions, but never gives them self permission to lean on others. There is an almost melancholy air to Dex at times as they continue to question their life’s goals and purpose. is said on an uplift, her voice rising a couple octaves and sounding almost like fake joy which always bothers me a bit.

The gentle touch with which Chambers handles her material makes the book's loftiest philosophical aims feel grounded. I think you’ll bring a lot of perspective to the people we meet, even if all they do is see you walk by. These have quickly become my favorite moments, when reading begins to feel like overhearing a confession, a pouring out of inarticulable truths that can only emerge when you finally find someone with whom you can just sit on the ground and breathe. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy’ picks up immediately after the conclusion of Book 1 with Dex and Mosscap leaving the wilderness and beginning their journey across the human occupied places of Panga.

It’s not like I ever doubted the Awakening happened, but meeting you made it real in a way no museum ever could.

I’m glad this series brings hope and happiness to fans, but I’m clearly too much of a cynic to be the correct audience. Mosscap’s questions, concerns and view points send their thoughts in unexpected directions and I must say that the characters’ inner process are just as interesting as the external events.

There is a discussion of their transaction system (which is not money, according to Dex) and meetings with people show what mores prevail.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I feel like a grinch because blah blah philosophy, the meaning of life, we improve ourselves by helping each other, what is consciousness, how to find purpose in the absence of work, etc. Her books have been nominated for the Kitschies Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the Arthus C. Dried salt and accumulated trail dust veritably peeled from their skin, running in grubby spirals into the greywater catch.