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The Series is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

December 31, 2019 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

  Last year, I reviewed JY Yang´s twin novellas The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune and was quite charmed by them, with their clever worldbuilding and experimental narrative styles. Described as ´silkpunk´ by the author, the world of the Tensorate is an ingenious mix of politics and magic. With The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang continues to experiment by writing this third instalment in an epistolary fashion. This is their boldest choice by far, as the switch between letters, diaries […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Jy Yang, The Descent of Monsters

LittlePlat's CBR11 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Jy Yang, The Descent of Monsters ·
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Underrepresented #CBR10 Bingo

August 14, 2018 by ElCicco 1 Comment

JY Yang is a queer, non-binary, post-colonial intersectional feminist. They live in Singapore. The Descent of Monsters is the third in JY Yang’s Tensorate Series. I reviewed the first two volumes earlier this year, and the third continues the riveting and ingenious story of a world where a very privileged few hold ultimate power and wield it with disregard, if not contempt, for the rest. While the first two volumes focus on the extraordinarily talented twin children of the supreme dictator known as the Protector, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, ElCicco, fantasy, Fiction, Jy Yang, science fiction, The Descent of Monsters

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:34 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, ElCicco, fantasy, Fiction, Jy Yang, science fiction, The Descent of Monsters ·
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