3/5I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher and author for this opportunity. This was a very well crafted story, and different to anything I've read before. The format is basically two people having a conversation, one of them is a cleric and the other an old woman, and the old woman, Rabbit, tells a story of an exiled empress who rises to power again. It's difficult for me to quite wrap my head around how I feel about this book. It's wonderfully diverse, with queer characters, including a non binary (they/them) protagonist called Chih, and the mythology of the world/political system seems very interesting, but nothing about the story grabbed me. It didn't make me FEEL anything. I was more drawn in by the story that Rabbit was telling than the present day story of Rabbit, Chih and Almost Brilliant, but even that felt a little boring at times. Considering how short the story is I think it did a good job of trying to pack in a lot of details about the world that these characters live in, but I just don't think this was for me. This isn't to say that it isn't worth the read though because the writing itself is very well done, the world is interesting, I think I just need a bit more action to keep me paying attention.
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