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[–] JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't think anything hooked me quite like Worm! I completely agree with Taylor evolving a lot throughout the story, and I feel the whole scope of the story gets so much larger, in such a satisfying way.

I read a few arcs of the Worm sequel, Ward, but it didn't really click for me. From the same author, I found Twig to be really interesting. It takes place in a very different setting and has a darker tone, but I feel some of the narrative techniques are the same as in Worm. For example, the characters know more of the world than the reader does, who gets to discover it piece by piece, and the characters themselves are the important part, not whatever magic or science powers the world. The scale and stakes do not explode like Worms' do, but the story definitely does not stay stale either.

To me very personally, Ward felt a bit like "more Worm but not quite". I didn't really want more Worm. Twig felt like a new, very different story, in a somewhat similar style. It didn't hook me like Worm did, but it scratched a similar itch of discovering an atypical world, with its rules, characters and unreliable narrators.