Instead, aside from Jules’s fleeting appearance, the novella revolves around Derek, a character who doesn’t so much as appear in Finna as act as the catalyst for what transpires.
Given Finna‘s open-ended climax, I expected Defekt to continue Ava and Jules’ adventures.
When one of the customers disappears into another dimension, two low-paid workers – Ava and Jules – with little training or guidance are tasked with finding the customer. The wonderfully entertaining Finna (go read it if you haven’t) introduced us to LitenVärld’s unique relationship to wormholes and the multiverse due to the twisty, turny configuration of the showroom floors. Like Finna, Defekt is set in LitenVärld, a company that bears more than a passing resemblance to a Swedish multinational famous for its flat-pack, do-it-yourself furniture and maze-like stores. Nino Cipri’s enjoyable new novella, Defekt, is a perpendicular sequel to last year’s Finna: perpendicular because both books briefly meet then diverge in different directions.
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