Sharon Shinn's Alibi
This felt like a departure for Shinn—it has romance and a little mystery, but it’s set in a future world with teleportation (and there are some other mentions of differences/shit that has gone down). I loved the chatty narrative voice—the narrator is an English professor who takes a side gig tutoring the ill son of a wealthy and prominent man, and the scenes of her with her students were some of my faves. Not everything worked for me—the villain is absolutely ridiculously villainous, and some of the descriptions the narrator uses are weird (one friend is described more than once as “exotic” looking with his “rum and coffee” skin, and I thought everyone had agreed SEVERAL years ago that we didn’t compare skin tones to food). I did really enjoy the main character and all her friendships though, just really grabbed me. A-/B+.
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