Saturday, February 28, 2026

The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui


Published Feb. 24, 2026 from Erewhon Books

I like the cadence of the descriptions.

 

1: Repeated word choice.

2: Stories about AI companions hit different these days, but this is a cute enough character-establishing anecdote.

 

1: Sounds like a pretty nice time.

2: Repeated word choice.

3: Interesting that he seems to have a fairly lax perspective on his religion.

 

1: This is the third straight paragraph of worldbuilding. It’s decently interesting, but some of this information could have been spread out and sprinkled within the narrative.

2: This line is a little hard to parse.

3: Glad it’s fitting in some character information among the worldbuilding.

 

A very similar description was used in the first paragraph. It's not a huge deal, but the lines could have been used to point out some other details of the room instead.


Verdict: Starts out shaky but I’m intrigued enough to continue.

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