Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, 3)
Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...
Lambda Award Finalist
Ignyte Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novella
Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella
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"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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âThe world is built on who carries what and for who,â Chih said, settling the weight more comfortably on their shoulders. âItâs not a bad world where we carry presents for people who feed us.â
While traveling the dangerous Riverlands cleric Chih of the Singing Hills and Almost Brilliant fall in with a peculiar group of travelers: two young women and an older couple, both parties more than they seem. As their perilous journey progresses, more and more of the Riverlands mysteries get revealed whilst Chih and the group run into danger.
My least favorite so far. I found this one hard to follow with all the juggling between the current timeline and the different versions of the story being told. It might've been my ears, but in this one the names of the characters got all mixed up and I was never quite sure who we were talking about until the narrator did their voice. Having said that I did enjoy Chih's growth and them changing from a more passive character to an active one who took action during the story and the showdown.
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