A review by ayshayodels
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, by Nghi Vo

5.0

I marvel at how writers are capable of writing so much in so few pages. It also makes me wonder about all those books filled with nonsense that could easily be condensed to half their size and still amount to the same story. The Empress of Salt and Fortune did something that very few books do and that's tell a story in a way that no one else can and manage to grip you through it all. This book was poetry and lore and beauty all wrapped into one. I'm definitely picking up the second book.