Griz Grobus

This was a charming read but one that was beautifully unique. This world that was created was fascinating!

This was a fun and unique read with interesting artwork. I like the commentary about society and technology, and as other people have pointed out, the vibe is really cool. It did feel like there needed to be more story, but hopefully we'll get more. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

I think everything I've read from Simon Roy has been a variation on the theme of humans surrounded by relics of a technology they no longer fully understand, but this is by far the gentlest iteration, with the human settlers on the world of Altamira leading what looks like a pleasant enough life in an Alpine sort of landscape, and the old robot resurrected by an archaeologist's meddling bringing not carnage but comic exasperation. The low-stakes ramble through a Ghibli-flavoured landscape of mountains, woods and overgrown buildings is interspersed with excerpts from a slightly hairier but still fundamentally kind-hearted story within the story, Altamira's best-loved book, a fantasy anti-epic in which the god of war is inadvertently summoned into the body of a goose.

(Netgalley ARC)