Review Quotes Savvy and unflinching, brave in all its forms, Neon Jane shows us with startling emotional clarity that you dont have to conform to tell a story that matters. Through her uncles story and new complications with Janes health, Maia contemplates what it means to live a full life, and whether it is time to let go of the cancer experience that has defined her for so long. As Maia looks for a genetic explanation for her previous cancer, she uncovers the story of her uncle Jason, a famous baroque musician who drowned in his twenties. Maia argues back through personal reflections about cancers ongoing presence in her healthy adult life, and her struggle to move forward from the experience.

Representing Maia as a child, Jane pressures Maia to be a better, more successful person in the name of childhood cancer. The two have an inseparable bond and complicated friendship as Maia takes on the role of Janes caretaker.

This is sure to entertain any fan of gritty speculative fiction.Book Synopsis FILLING THE GAP between the experience of the sick and those living healthy lives in remission, Neon Jane follows twenty-four-year-old Maias journey to move forward from her childhood cancer experience as she is haunted by a spunky, ghostlike, thirteen-year-old cancer patient named Jane. The book ends in a somewhat predictable setup for the sequel, but getting there is good fun, with stellar worldbuilding and quick pacing.

Meanwhile, Sylvaine Pelletier, a brilliant, animalian engineer who gave up everything in her quest to restore some of the world’s pre-apocalyptic splendor, discovers that Roache can supply her with the power she needs to manipulate sangleum, but at a high cost. After a set of indecipherable mechanical diagrams captioned “show to an engineer” appears in Marcel’s office, Marcel uncovers a conspiracy at the heart of Lazacorp that encompasses genocide, religious zealotry, and a brewing revolution. Now he’s a private investigator working regular jobs for war acquaintance Lazarus Roache, who runs Lazacorp, a megacompany dealing in sangleum. Marcel Talwar fought for liberty-and sangleum, the aether-oil powering his postapocalyptic society’s weird science-in a war that left him maimed in body and spirit. Clarke’s Law-that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic-meets dieselpunk in Lemelson’s enjoyable debut, an inventive mash-up of science fiction and hardboiled mystery.

The Sightless City by Noah Lemelson