Burning Roses
Written by S. L. Huang
Narrated by Nancy Wu
4/5
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About this audiobook
Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she's past her prime.
They would both rather just be retired, but that's not what the world has ready for them.
When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they've both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that's a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family, and the quest for immortality.
S. L. Huang
S. L. Huang is a Hollywood stunt performer, firearms expert, Nebula Award finalist, and Hugo Award winner with a math degree from MIT and credits in productions like “Battlestar Galactica” and “Top Shot.” The author of the fantasy novella Burning Roses as well as the Cas Russell novels including Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point, Huang’s short fiction has also appeared in Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nature, Tor.com, and more, including numerous best-of anthologies.
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Readers find this title to have a slow start and some melodramatic moments, but the pace picks up in part 2. The characters are complex and the blending of European and Asian mythologies is enjoyable. The book also explores character morality. Overall, readers are glad they stayed till the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love the mixing of European and Asian mythologies here.
Also the discussion of character morality is fun. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It took time to get into the story. It starts slow and the narrator’s voice had more of a gravely voice than I’m used to. I will also say at some points the story seemed a bit melodramatic, however, by part 2 the story’s pace picked up, the complexity of the characters was revealed, and the ingenuity of this world began to unfold. So glad I stayed till the end.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5One star because I could not give less!
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