80 pages
Published 2022
Read June 8
Rating: 4 out of 5
Short version: Queer partisans killing Nazis with the aid of an ancient Italic goddess. A+, no notes.
Longer version: No, really, way more books should be about queer resistance fighters slaying the hell out of some Nazis. Especially stories about partisans killing Nazis — stories that remind us that not everyone acquiesces when fascists take over their country.
This slender novel is tightly constructed, Tacchi’s crisp, unadorned prose doling out exactly the information and imagery needed to build the story. Like our narrator, Mountains burns on a short fuse, just wanting to take out all the Nazi pigs it can before it ends. Comparisons to Indiana Jones — ancient gods, mystical relics, battling fascists to wrest a metaphysical power from their hands — are inevitable, perhaps, but unworthy. This little book is so much more than Saturday matinee fare.
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