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I just finished rereading Empress of Salt and Fortune, a novella by Nghi Vo.
I had to reread it because to be honest, I was losing interest, until I reached the mind-blowing end and was like, WTF did I miss? While it was easy for me to put down the first time around, taking six days to finish, the re-read took 2 hours.
It's a story about how an exiled empress foments a rebellion. The narrative, like her, is so subtle in the way it drops clues. Like the antagonist, I totally didn't see what was ha ...more
I had to reread it because to be honest, I was losing interest, until I reached the mind-blowing end and was like, WTF did I miss? While it was easy for me to put down the first time around, taking six days to finish, the re-read took 2 hours.
It's a story about how an exiled empress foments a rebellion. The narrative, like her, is so subtle in the way it drops clues. Like the antagonist, I totally didn't see what was ha ...more
I... feel like I'm missing something. This felt like one bite taken out of an apple- it was good but I wanted more. I wanted to know the characters more and we only got a surface level of them. I like the way the story was told and even the reveal at the end but it was so short and I found myself really only caring about what Rabbit was saying and not the other chapters.
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4/5 stars
Nominee: 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella (TBD)
Nominee: 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella (TBD)
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This is more of a lyrical character sketch than a traditionally formatted story. In a frame story, a cleric listens to a servant’s stories about the recently deceased Empress.
The strength of the novella is its beautiful writing. Vo uses sparse prose to sketch out the life of the Empress; the pace is quick and every word counts, especially given the work’s short length. There’s not much of a ...more
Nominee: 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella (TBD)
Nominee: 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella (TBD)
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This is more of a lyrical character sketch than a traditionally formatted story. In a frame story, a cleric listens to a servant’s stories about the recently deceased Empress.
The strength of the novella is its beautiful writing. Vo uses sparse prose to sketch out the life of the Empress; the pace is quick and every word counts, especially given the work’s short length. There’s not much of a ...more
Oct 19, 2022
Tweller83
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
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audio-books
Interesting novella that I quite liked listening to. I'm excited to listen to the others in this series to see where this goes.
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Beautiful and poignant, quick and gripping!
Do you understand? Mostly. I’d like to reread this before the next.
Do you understand? Mostly. I’d like to reread this before the next.
May 27, 2020
tobes
marked it as to-read
Jul 13, 2020
Theresa Wright
marked it as tbr-owned
Jul 13, 2020
Patrick
marked it as to-read
Nov 07, 2021
Karigan
marked it as to-read
Jan 25, 2022
Bee
marked it as to-read
