Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, 3, Band 3)
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Lambda Award Finalist
Ignyte Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novella
Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella
A Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Magazine | Arlington Magazine | Transfer Orbit | LitHub
"A delicious bonbon of a novella about stories and their unreliable narrators, who wink at their listeners (or readers), fully expecting us to catch on."―The Wall Street Journal
"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themself far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.
Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story―beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel―bears more than one face.
The Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands
Mammoths at the Gates
The Brides of High Hill
The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entry point.
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Auch dieser Teil überzeugt auf ganzer Linie!
In diesem Teil des "Singing Hills Cycle" begeliten wir Chih und weitere Weggefährten auf einer Reise durch die "Riverlands", wo eine berühmt berüchtigte Bande von Banditen (früher) ihr Unwesen trieb. Die Rahmengeschichte macht diesmal den grössten Teil der Erzählung aus, und wir tauchen ein in den Aspekt der "Master of martial arts" Nghi Vos Welt. Dieser Teil hat am ehesten etwas von einer klassischen Abenteuergeschichte und ist wie der zweite Teil meiner Meinung nach besser geeignet für den Einstieg als der erste. Die Reihe überzeugt bis anhin vollkommen!
It feels almost wrong to give this 4/5*, because that results from me measuring it up to the other two novellas in this series and not because this book isn't -just as much as the others- beautifully written, thought provoking and atmospheric as fuck. This time around clerik Chih's adventure explores living legends, how judgements are woven into narratives and the in-between of the genesis from event to story. In comparison to the others this one lacked a revelation that knocked me off my feet, because the one in this I had figured out by the half point and there were a few more characters to keep track of in this, which didn't hinder the story's success per se, but kept me from completely falling into the story, because I needed to concentrate more. CNs for murder, burial, abstract grief (as in grieving a stranger), physical violence
Description
Lambda Award Finalist
Ignyte Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novella
Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella
A Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Magazine | Arlington Magazine | Transfer Orbit | LitHub
"A delicious bonbon of a novella about stories and their unreliable narrators, who wink at their listeners (or readers), fully expecting us to catch on."―The Wall Street Journal
"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themself far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.
Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story―beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel―bears more than one face.
The Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands
Mammoths at the Gates
The Brides of High Hill
The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entry point.
Book Information
Posts
Auch dieser Teil überzeugt auf ganzer Linie!
In diesem Teil des "Singing Hills Cycle" begeliten wir Chih und weitere Weggefährten auf einer Reise durch die "Riverlands", wo eine berühmt berüchtigte Bande von Banditen (früher) ihr Unwesen trieb. Die Rahmengeschichte macht diesmal den grössten Teil der Erzählung aus, und wir tauchen ein in den Aspekt der "Master of martial arts" Nghi Vos Welt. Dieser Teil hat am ehesten etwas von einer klassischen Abenteuergeschichte und ist wie der zweite Teil meiner Meinung nach besser geeignet für den Einstieg als der erste. Die Reihe überzeugt bis anhin vollkommen!
It feels almost wrong to give this 4/5*, because that results from me measuring it up to the other two novellas in this series and not because this book isn't -just as much as the others- beautifully written, thought provoking and atmospheric as fuck. This time around clerik Chih's adventure explores living legends, how judgements are woven into narratives and the in-between of the genesis from event to story. In comparison to the others this one lacked a revelation that knocked me off my feet, because the one in this I had figured out by the half point and there were a few more characters to keep track of in this, which didn't hinder the story's success per se, but kept me from completely falling into the story, because I needed to concentrate more. CNs for murder, burial, abstract grief (as in grieving a stranger), physical violence