Readers’ Favorites – Asher Syed

The parallels Stella Atrium draws between the commodification of tribal people, and ethnographic feudalism is a stomach-churning piece of 21st-century realism.

As a man of color raising daughters of color, having spent my own entire childhood in a third-world country, I know what living under martial law looks like. I know what the refugee experience feels like. I know what it means to be viewed in a foreign land as ‘other’ and ‘less than’…and Stella Atrium nails it.

The Tribal Wars series is an ambitious undertaking but, based on Book I, it’s likely to be a brilliant one.