The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen ZhaoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It will never cease to amaze me that despite YA Twitter’s attempts to shoot Amélie Wen Zhao’s career dead in the crib, she continues to publish beautiful new fantasy novels while most of those who targeted her have failed to catch on like they expected. And, even better, Zhao gives us increasingly Chinese stories to reflect her culture, and this time, she’s 100% correct: this is for the C drama girlies. I may not be one myself - not a girlie, and unfortunately I’ve experienced very little of C dramas, though I’ve watched a K drama or two with similar historical and fantastical stylings - but that might have to change after reading this book. The start of another duology, this one has some of Zhao’s highest action and romance stakes yet. The action stakes were nothing unexpected to those of us who have followed her career from the start, but the romance…whoo, that’s Zhao’s finest work yet in that field. Here’s hoping we see Book 2 this time next year…
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