Thursday, October 12, 2023

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, by Nghi Vo

A fairly straightforward way to capture an audience that likes stories is to write a book (or series) about collecting stories. The plot drives itself. Nghi Vo continues a very old tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) of telling a story for one's life. I especially liked the tiger characters. Vo makes them very engaging characters, utterly confident of their power and rights as apex predators. Except they're not, quite--intelligent mammoths are part of this tale and a lone small mammoth can take a tiger. And there are big ones. I hope she does more with the mammoths in Into the Riverlands. All in all it's a good read, exciting without too much bite. Enough to make we want to read more.

My Goodreads Review

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