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A review by maeverose
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
3.0
I can appreciate it but it didn’t hold up to the first book for me. I’m not really a fan of fable-esque stories, and this one is very much that. I like that it brings up the topic of who’s writing history and if they’re really depicting it as it happened, I would’ve liked if it leaned a bit more into that. It was very meh for me overall.
I’m also a bit curious about the ‘romance’ in the book, because to me it felt very typical of fable-esque love stories that are actually pretty toxic from a modern pov, so I wasn’t thinking of it as a romance we were supposed to root for exactly but it seems like some other reviewers felt differently.. because the romance was very toxic both from the human’s and tiger’s povs (stalking, not helping unless they get something out of it, being generally aggressive, etc.).
I’m also a bit curious about the ‘romance’ in the book, because to me it felt very typical of fable-esque love stories that are actually pretty toxic from a modern pov, so I wasn’t thinking of it as a romance we were supposed to root for exactly but it seems like some other reviewers felt differently.. because the romance was very toxic both from the human’s and tiger’s povs (stalking, not helping unless they get something out of it, being generally aggressive, etc.).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
There’s a lot of descriptions of animal gore and eating raw animal parts
Also very minor but there was at least one time that I noticed the author used the wrong pronouns for Chih 🙃