Phat-et-ic OP t1_iy3swd5 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 3:21 PM

Reply to comment by SoothingDisarray in Environmentalist, postcolonial, queer books?? by Phat-et-ic

Woah I think I recently accidentally bought the sequel to this! The Committed. Only when I started reading did I realise it was not the first part so I stopped. But definitely will look for The Sympathiser soon.

SoothingDisarray t1_iy3vlab wrote on November 28, 2022 at 3:40 PM

Ha! Yeah, you definitely need to read The Sympathizer first. The Sympathizer is a standalone/complete novel, but The Committed is very much a not-standalone continuation. It has constant references to the first book and very little handholding about it--by which I mean it doesn't waste time explaining what happened and expects you to remember. :D