A review by starversed
In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente

5.0

This book is masterful, it spins you a tale that is a globe is a web is a river back to the ocean is your blood in your veins back to your heart. I couldn't put it down, I went to sleep thinking and dreaming of the stories that began in it and went on and on, like grass in a plain. Clearly, Valente has me waxing poetic, but I've been eating this and the sequel for two days straight, and nothing else. For fans of The Arabian Nights and other tales within tales, and fans of fairytales and folktales and mythology and scripture. And if you've read Deathless, it's not as sad or as harrowing, although it does have Sorrow (pun intended, you'll see if you read it), and is just as poetically written.