Finna

LitenVerse #1

by

paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Feb. 25, 2020 by Tor.com.

ISBN:
9781250245731

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3 stars (1 review)

Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange.

When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.

To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

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reviewed Finna by Nino Cipri

A Fun Read

3 stars

This is a short little read, but definitely fun! The characters are fun, the settings are, of course, interesting, and it's got gender!

That said, the promised anti-capitalism of the book comes off as a little capitalist-realismy, and the gender stuff is a little superficial (although some people like that!). Personally, I didn't deeply connect with the character's relationship or personal arcs either.

That said, I don't regret reading it. Because it's so short, it works super well as a great little pocket-sized adventure that's still fun and good to read!