Phill Mendonça-Vieira, Okay Fail:
“The Chromatic Fantasy is so fucking good, you guys
I don’t know how to say this without overselling it.
I went into it with zero expectations, which imho is the best way to appreciate art, so from that perspective I have already ruined it. It’s also clear to me that a big part of its charm is precisely that it appeared serendipitously, right at the last moment, as if it was calling out to me, just like the devil in the story itself.
You, dear reader, will not be able to enjoy it like I have enjoyed it, and I am sad for you.
But what a story! Without any spoilers, the book deals with:
- transitioning and navigating gender
- abusive romantic relationships
- abusive familial relationships
- not fitting in, and suicidal ideation
- being an aimless scumbag in your early-to-mid-twenties
- and above all, falling in love and desperately wanting to live, and be loved and to be deserving of love.
And it wraps all of this up in a one-shot, swashbuckling sword and sorcery adventure in a anachronistically medieval setting. The whole book is luscious, both sensual and luxuriating in detail, hardly any of which escape the author’s attention.”
Read the full review on Okay Fail‘s website here!
