I’ve never read anything quite like Ken Liu’s debut novel The Grace of Kings.I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain it for a week now and the closest I can come to is this: Chinese history meets The Iliad meets Game of Thrones. Sometimes it reads like a history book…and then our heroes wage their wars on the backs of whales or from steampunk-inspired hot air balloons. Sprawling and ambitious, I couldn’t help but cheer for this book, even when I didn’t love […]
Chinese science-fiction bestseller–epic in scope, intimate in detail.
I don’t remember where I heard about this book, but I’m so glad I did. I even used up one of my coveted ‘not-on-my-to-read-list’ freebie books to read it. This book was a capital ‘E’ Experience. *I’m only allowing myself twenty-five freebie books this year–books that aren’t on my 2015 TBR–because last year half the books I read were impulse reads and I barely made a dent in the books I meant to read. I’m sure this is a problem you’re all familiar with. I’m […]