Recommended by my daughter Noelle (linktr.ee/NMcManusArt), I started reading another book by Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger. Last week, I read The Fox Wife, and it was a fantastic book: several-excellent-books.html. The Night Tiger is equally excellent. It contains so much and could be categorized as historical fiction — it takes place in the 1930s, incorporates magical realism, and features a suspenseful romance. At the heart of the book are Jin-Li, the dance hall girl, and Ren, the Chinese house boy. Together, they must set the world right, placating the mysterious night tiger.
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Last week, I read The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young. This week, I read her previous book, Spells for Forgetting, as it is considered her breakthrough book. There is an island off the Northwest Coast called Saoirse. Its insular natives know it is more than it seems. As a teenager, Emery was eager to leave with her true love, August. Then her best friend died under mysterious circumstances, and August leaves without her. Years later, August returns to bury his mother, and the past, the island, and its inhabitants want revenge.
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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots was a surprising book. In the blurb, it stated that the main character was angry, which made me less inclined to read it. I understand there is no story without conflict, but I have a big conflict-avoidant streak, and it made me resistant to reading the book. I did, and I'm glad I did. Anna is the lowest level of henchperson. She works for a temp agency and is hired to be an extra in a villain's ransom plot, where she becomes collateral damage. This lights a fire in her belly to expose the "good" guys. Walschots has thought-provoking things to say about what nudges some towards evil-doing and others to the hero business, while at the same time sustaining a turbo-paced plot with a large cast of weird, wonderful characters with odd superpowers. It wrestles with the morally grey areas of who's a good guy and who's a bad guy.
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