Review: As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers

I really love this front cover design for As You Wake, Break the Shell, gorgeous colours and concept. The cover illustrations are by Sam Chivers and design is by Sam Payne. For the hundred thousandth time, she fell in love, and it wasn’t brought on by any one particular thing. It wasn’t the complexity of her wife’s notes, or the knowledge that she’d been up picking berries before the lights came on. It wasn’t her choice of outfit, or the way her salt-and-pepper bedhead perfectly complement the ensemble. It wasn’t her beautiful hips or her beautiful ass or the stripes and folds time had been generous enough to gift her with. It wasn’t her focus, her fervor, or the predictable fact that she hadn’t noticed she had company. What made Cora fall was the complete tableau, the whole portrait. The whole of her. h what Cora loved—every ingredient that compromised Signy, no one piece more defining than the rest. page 57, Cora, Cypsela Table of ContentsWhy As You Wake, Break the Shell?The…