The Descent of Monsters

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Published March 1, 2021 by Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-6651-1209-3
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3 stars (1 review)

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reviewed The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang (Tensorate, #3)

The Descent of Monsters

3 stars

This is the third novella in the Tensorate series. It's got a new protagonist and a wildly different style, sounding much more like a fantasy noir detective investigating a mystery. There's also different tonal shifts between chapters themselves, as some chapters are written as reports to authorities, some are redacted transcripts of interviews, while others are unfiltered journal entries. Overall, this is a very different feeling book than the previous two but I really enjoyed the read.

As a mystery proper, it feels much less about the "whodunnit" (as arguably the second book did) and more about the "what" and the "why". It's very clear from the get go that the authorities are almost certainly at fault here, somehow. There's also a strong horror element of investigating a gory scene while the perpetrator is almost certainly around, but I'd argue that it's secondary to the mystery theme as the "horror …