A Palace Near the Wind
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ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
15.04.2025
Verlag
Titan BooksSeitenzahl
192 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
2501 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781803369396
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao's The Surviving Sky.
Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and, bound by duty and tradition, the next bride to the human king. With their bark faces, arms of braided branches and hair of needle threads, the Feng people live within nature, nurtured by the land. But they exist under the constant threat of human expansion, and the negotiation of bridewealth is the only way to stop- or at least delay-the destruction of their home. Come her wedding day, Lufeng plans to kill the king and finally put an end to the marriages.
Trapped in the great human palace in the run-up to the union, Lufeng begins to uncover the truth about her people's origins and realizes they will never be safe from the humans. So she must learn to let go of duty and tradition, choose her allies carefully, and risk the unknown in order to free her family and shape her own fate.
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion.
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intriguing but way too short
The premise of this novella really intrigued me—it plays with the tension between environmentalism and progress for progress sake. Ai Jiang's lovely prose paints intricate scenes, oscillating between gentle, melancholic emotional passages and repulsive, horror-tinged descriptions. Unfortunately, the novella format feels like its greatest disservice. There's virtually no world-building, leaving me stumbling along trying to piece things together. Perhaps this was intentional, mirroring the protagonist’s own disorientation, but the story moves so quickly—with little time to process and almost no explanation for the events—that it left me feeling more confused than immersed. Given that it's part of a duology, I think there was enough room to further develop both the world and the plot. The concept and characters were compelling, and the prose was absolutely beautiful—it just needed more space to breathe.
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