The Brides of High Hill

, #5

by

Published by Tor.

(4 reviews)

The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. But they’re forgetting things they ought to remember, and the lord’s mad young son wanders the grounds at night like a hanged ghost.

The Singing Hills Cycle has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award, and has won the Hugo Award and the Crawford Award.

"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."―NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune

"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen

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reviewed The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Always delightful

It's always delightful to come back to Nghi Vo's novellas from the Singing Hills saga. Again, she explores new facets of storytelling, and it seems like Cleric Chih is starting to solve mysteries, using stories, memories, and lies...

reviewed The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

That escalated quickly...

"Well, that escalated quickly..." - the book That's basically the plot of this latest entry in the Singing Hills Cycle. According to the author it's about lies. Which are also a kind of storytelling and in retrospect it makes sense. But while reading it felt like being about traps and I didnt't figure the traps out until they were revealed. There's also a dreamlike quality to large chunks of the book. The feel is different to the other books in the series but I liked it.

reviewed The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

The Brides of High Hill

This Singing Hills cycle novella leans much more into gothic horror. Some of the story framework almost felt like a Bluebeard setup, but it went in fresh directions. Plot-wise, this book feels much more about action than about recording stories; arguably, I think this is a book that deals (metaphorically) about the power of deceptive stories, but I still miss the more literal storytelling themes from previous books.

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