books cristina read in 2022: the spear cuts through the water - simon jimenez

“This is a love story down to its blade-dented bone.”

Servant of death

(ID: a digital drawing of jun from the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez. it’s a portrait with a dark blue background. jun has blood sprayed over the right half of his face, and a tattoo of a peacock wing under his left eye. above his head is a dark red crescent moon. END ID.)

I am curious how a cripple finds himself in the stuff of gods and rebellion.

— The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Who else got their mind consumed by god-killing homosexual war criminals this year?

so we dance the dance

The Spear That Cut Through Water finally answering my question of 'where's the SFF novels about morally ambiguous war criminal cannibal queer guys? How come women are getting all the fun?"

sharing my new fav read of 2024 and fav book of all time.... it left such a profound mark on me... i think everyone should try reading this book...!!!!

omg this came so fast

"This is a love story to its blade-dented bone."

Jun the Red Peacock and Keema of the Daware Tribe from The Spear Cuts Through Water 🌊

i haven't seen any fan art for them, so i offer this bumble offering to the gods 🙇🏽‍♀️

(ID: A digital drawing of Keema and Jun from The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. Keema has chin length brown hair, and is wearing a terra cotta colored shirt and purple pants. He holds a spear and looks over at Jun, smiling slightly. Jun is wearing a blue wrap shirt and black pants tightened at the waist and shins with cord. He holds a red demon mask. The background is teal, a thin crescent moon between them. The other images are close ups of their faces. END ID.)

Because you are right, this moonlit body tells you; this is indeed a love story. Down to the blade-dented bone.

Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water.

keema and jun

Please read The Spear Cuts Through Water

It only works because of the like three layers of framing device and diegetic storytelling but I really love the thing The Spear That Cuts Through Water is doing where whenever it mentions some extra reacting to or interacting with the main narrative, it gives a half-line of their internal monologue or backstory in italics inserted in the middle of the action.

I need to reread the spear cuts through water to get my thoughts sorted about the Third Terror. what a bleak existence, to be hated and neglected your entire life, taught violence as your only mode of interaction, for cruelty to be so enmeshed within the very fabric of your being that you are incapable of reaching to the first scrap of kindness you have ever been shown without being monstrous