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In this East-Asian influenced world, be wary if you meet three tigers, they might ask you to tell them a tale, and if you tell it badly, they'll eat you.

Nghi Vo keeps embellishing her world where tigers and foxes can turn into humans, to court them, marry them, or more prosaically to eat them. The same tale is told from two points of view, with two different sets of values, and makes us ask ourselves what we miss when we hear only one side of a story.

I like the short format of these novellas, the worldbuilding happens during the story and there's no infodump or long intro.

@lichen@bookwyrm.social I've been waiting to read this one, I hope it won't be not too hard as I don't think it's been translated to French

builds on a rich tradition of ecology (most importantly indigenous one) and states the obvious. hard to read, strong emotions. highly recommended.

The Bannerless saga is an interesting thought experiment into what makes communities. Is it common rules? Is it enforcement of said rules? Is it caring for people even if rules are broken?

I like that the "investigators" provide a service and are not just blind enforcers of law, the main character could be seen as a cop but the book is low on copaganda. It could be seen as anarchism in practice.

Better than the first installment of the series. The characters are more rounded, the story around the first contact with an alien species can be read on many levels and is much more adapted to a SF setting than the first installment. I hope there'll be another book telling what happens with Mahit and Three Seagrass!