His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal

His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Paranormal, Historical
Length: Short Story (28 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master.

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Everyone in this world has always remained in the same social class from their birth to their death. Is there any point in trying to change that?

The plot twists sure were well done. I liked seeing how lightly the narrator foreshadowed them, especially once I realized I’d missed a hint or two about what was to come. It was a great deal of fun to adjust to the surprises that the main character and his fellow travelling performers were about to encounter once the storyline revealed that their lives were about to change in all sorts of interesting ways.

One thing I found pretty confusing was how reluctant the characters were to use each other’s names. There were enough people running around that it would have been quite helpful to have some way of identifying all of them more quickly. Using nicknames or other informal ways of referring to each other would have been perfectly fine by me. I simply struggled to keep track of everyone up until the point that I’d figured out these basic pieces of information about them because of how uncommon it was for the characters to refer to each other by some sort of moniker.

I loved the world building in this tale. At first the narrator dove into describing what was happening without explaining anything to the audience. Eventually, there were context clues about what was really going on and how everyone knew each other. I truly enjoyed the process of taking note of the references I didn’t understand and then slowly realizing what each of them meant to the protagonist as well as to everyone around him despite my wish for their names to be revealed more easily.

His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light should be read by anyone who has ever been dazzled by a circus or other travelling show and wondered what might be going on with the participants in it behind the scenes.