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The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo
Published by Tor.com on March 24, 2020
my rating: ★★★ (3 stars)
Goodreads avg: 4.07 (as of 2020-03-13)
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Obviously are reviews are subjective, but I want to emphasize that all my ‘issues’ with this book are purely personal preference. I think this was well-written and it is clearly beloved by many! I just didn’t really jive with the writing style, it’s very much a story-inside-a-story and I had trouble parsing it all out. The prose is truly beautiful though, and the characters are all distinct and interesting. I did feel like a lot of the relationships were implied rather than spelled out; I tagged this as ‘polyamorous’ and don’t even know if that’s canon but it is how I read it personally.
I’ll definitely be recommending this even if it didn’t quite work for me, and while I don’t intend to continue the series I’ll still be keeping an eye out for Vo’s future works.
Sarah Ames-Foley 
ah sorry you did not like this more (i adore it), but I definitely understand the issues you had with it. And now that you have mentioned it, I totally can see the polyamorous vibe.
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love this post, also you have the cutest blog!
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thank you so much!! 🙂 ❤
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This also ready polyamorous to me! A pity the writing style didn’t quite vibe with you (I can totally see why). Are you thinking of picking up the rest of the series?
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Yay, I’m glad you read it that way as well! I currently don’t plan on picking up the rest of the series but if you’ve read the sequel already, how does the writing style compare?
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