When the Tiger Came down the Mountain

, #2

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eBook, 176 pages

English language

Published Aug. 24, 2020 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-78616-6
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The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.

Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in this mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.

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reviewed When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

When the Tiger Came Down

4 stars: loved this book, would recommend

Very different from the first novella I read. It's very folktale-themed, with a fairly short and straightforward framing story encompassing two conflicting stories being told. Much less plot-driven, some musings on what a story is and what it means for a story to be true. I like how the worldbuilding hints at a much larger world without spelling it out. Like the other one, set in a vaguely East/Southeast Asian setting in much the way some other fantasy stories are often set in a vaguely Europe inspired world.

reviewed When the Tiger Came down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

Another wonderful novella

A perfect read for an automn evening with a cup of tea. Nghi Vo is an incredible storyteller, who never loses the reader in her stories of stories told by storytellers as well as tigers. In her world, tigers fall in love in young humans, or sometimes eat them, and sit around the fire listening and re-telling their side of the old stories... It is quite magic.