I especially love that Mosscap signs, isn’t all logic, and loves the wonders in the world.Ĭhambers’ dedication line, “For anybody who could use a break,” ties to the story. I adore Mosscap it oozes curiosity and energy in every sentence, and I imagine it as a giant, perpetually wide-eyed metallic robot. The two started off as opposites, one dispassionate and the other passionate about life, and kept each other company during the trek in the wilderness while learning about their different world views. Dex, a cleric who drinks, has sex, curses, and consumes meat, is trying to find the meaning of life, and Mosscap, a seven-foot-tall robot with a boxy head, wants to learn everything about humans, finding every tiny detail fascinating.

Until Mosscap finds Dex in the middle of nowhere in their wagon.īoth Dex and Mosscap are incredibly relatable. Set after Transition, which was when people redivided the land use of the moon, the robots were given freedom to leave the humans, and since the signing of the Parting Promise, there were no contact between the two. Chambers’ writing is very descriptive, and the world comes to life as Sibling Dex starts out as a garden monk, switches vocation to a tea monk, and decides to take a break altogether and embark on a journey to Hart’s Brow Mountain outside of human settlement.

This novella reads like a prequel as we are introduced to the world Panga, a moon of planet Motan, as well as the human religion Sacred Six (Parent Gods: Bosh, God of the Cycle, Grylon, God of the Inanimate, Trikilli, God of the Threads Child Gods: Samafar, Chal, Allalae). This is so cute and it makes me so happy! Sibling Dex (29, agender, they/them) and Splendid Speckled Mosscap (agender, it/its) are the only travel duo I need, aka the burnt-out cleric and the impossibly inquisitive robot. A Psalm for the Wild-Built ( Monk & Robot #1) by Becky ChambersĬlick on the cover for my review on Goodreads.

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