A review by katharine_opal
Barbarous, Chapter 5 by Ananth Hirsh

5.0

Okay, I absolutely love mind-bending stuff, and this chapter delivers. The one downside is that the start of the chapter feels extremely abrupt and very random since it drops us smack dab in the middle of a scene. This chapter showed a magical version of the concept of the self and different self-states and was a fascinating way to show us the different sides of Percy being at war with herself, and her eventual acceptance of who she is now. Also, I'm struck with love for the art of this again, with some lovely psychedelic-style art on some pages! The bit of world-building that shows that magic is viewed as more of a type of science and that there are two types of magic users was very enjoyable. I love good world-building and interesting magic systems. I've forgotten to mention it in previous chapters, but Percy's magic manifesting as her manipulating threads in order to "cast" is a very interesting type of magic.