I found that I was able to connect more with the characters in Deathless than in other of Cat Valente's books BECAUSE she toned down the language. She writes so much like a prose poem that while a short story of hers is okay, but anything longer and the story and characters get absolutely lost in the wild tangles of language. So Marya's determination and her connection with the changing Soviet Union through the lives of the mythic figures around her really stood out a lot better.
Basically I love Catherynne Valente, I just wish she would find a balance between language and story, and Deathless was the closest of hers I've found yet to achieving that.
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Basically I love Catherynne Valente, I just wish she would find a balance between language and story, and Deathless was the closest of hers I've found yet to achieving that.