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Storytelling to Keep Tigers at Bay

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

October 22, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo – Black (4th BINGO, I think) I am once again impressed at how much Nghi Vo can fit into a novella. She conveys so much about the world of the Singing Hills Cycle in so few pages. In this one sentence alone, for example, we get humor, history, and religion: “Not long after Dieu skirted the Battle of Kirshan—where General Peirong was killed by a raging bull that went on to become the king of Kirshan—she came around a bend in the road to find […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Nghi Vo, novella

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:76 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr17bingo, Nghi Vo, novella ·
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“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

May 22, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

When Fiat.Luxury reviewed When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went to my library to put in a hold and discovered that we had both it and the first in the cycle, The Empress of Salt & Fortune available as audiobooks. I was on the hunt for audiobooks to keep me company on my commute so instead of just requesting When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain I went ahead and requested The Empress of Salt & Fortune as well.   The Empress of Salt […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: AAPI Heritage Month, Cindy Kay, Nghi Vo, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Singing Hills Cycle, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, we need diverse books, when the tiger came down the mountain

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:21 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: AAPI Heritage Month, Cindy Kay, Nghi Vo, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Singing Hills Cycle, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, we need diverse books, when the tiger came down the mountain ·
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You Want To Do What With A Library?

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

March 29, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

The demon Vitrine has loved the city of Azril for centuries. Shaping its walls and guiding its people, it has been built into everything she has ever desired it to be. Then the angels come, and the city burns, leaving her with nothing but memories, and the angel she cursed to wander the city he destroyed. Trying to rebuild the city from the ground up, Vitrine has to deal with her memories, as well as her hatred for the angel who has become entwined with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Nghi Vo

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Nghi Vo ·
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Queer fantasy novella feat. shape-shifting, mammoths.

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

March 19, 2025 by Fiat.Luxury 1 Comment

This was a delightful novella, surprisingly rich for its 100 pages! Here’s the summary: Cleric Chih is a cleric in an order whose mission is to record history accurately. They are traveling via mammoth (!) with a guide, Si-yu, but are attacked and trapped en route by three wild – and hungry – tiger sisters who are also shape-shifters (!) To stall their captors, they propose to tell the human version of the story about the tiger Ho Thi Tao and the human scholar Dieu. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Nghi Vo, queer, shape shifter, when the tiger came down the mountain

Fiat.Luxury's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Nghi Vo, queer, shape shifter, when the tiger came down the mountain ·
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Some Carryovers from Last Year and Two from This Year

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

January 6, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Muse of Nightmares I was not expecting that. I was not expecting the call-backs to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, and that was so cool. This was already a book I was loving, and that bumped it right on up to 5 stars for me. This isn’t a spin-off or sequel, so you don’t have to have read that trilogy to enjoy this one, but I loved the sense of mild continuity. Muse of Nightmares picks up where Strange the Dreamer left off. Minya […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alicia Jasinska, alix e harrow, James Norbury, Laini Taylor, LGBTQ, Nghi Vo, novellas

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alicia Jasinska, alix e harrow, James Norbury, Laini Taylor, LGBTQ, Nghi Vo, novellas ·
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“At Gatsby’s, the clock stood at just five shy of midnight the moment you arrived.”

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

December 28, 2024 by dreadpiratekel 3 Comments

The Chosen and the Beautiful is a retelling of The Great Gatsby, which is told from Jordan Baker’s point of view. Except in this version, Jordan is Vietnamese and has been adopted into the Baker family (via a Missionary member of the family who adopted her in her travels). And oh yes, there is magic—lots and lots of magic. Full disclosure, I have read The Great Gatsby all of once, seen the Baz Luhrmann movie once, and listened to the Broadway Cast recording of the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: 1920s but with magic, historical fantasy, Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The Great Gatsby but with magic, The Great Gatsby retelling

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: 1920s but with magic, historical fantasy, Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The Great Gatsby but with magic, The Great Gatsby retelling ·
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