I usually love reading stories about women working with each other so I knew I probably was going to enjoy this story but, Vo’s writing really brought the whole tale together. Together, they are not just a barbarian and a servant, they are two powerful women in charge of their life. However, once the two women meet, they learn a lot about each other and an unlikely friendship starts between the two women. Rabbit is a lowborn girl sold at a very young age to become a royal servant and In-yo is the empress but she’s treating like a prisoner in her own empire because she’s from a neighboring country that is seen as not “civilized enough” compared to the Empire. The Empress of Salt and Fortune is slow and quiet story about two women trying to survive in a world where people don’t want them to have any sort of agency. It’s hard for me to convey how much I loved this little story.
They meet Rabbit, one of the late empress’s servant and her confidante and Rabbit’s slowly begins to tell them stories about In-yo, the former empress. Chih and Almost Brilliant see that as an opportunity to be the first to collect tales and information about the late empress but, when they arrive to the imperial summer residence, they are not the first on site. The new empress is going to be crowned and imperial sites that were previously closed to the public are now open. BOOK REVIEWĬhih and their magical companion Almost Brilliant travel the world to collect stories. She’s a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor’s lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.Īt once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.
Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Publication Date: March 24th 2020 PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTIONĪ young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China.
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