A review by zelos
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

sometimes when someone writes a ~queer retelling~ of myth or history it gets sanitized so heavily as to lose a lot of its appeal. This Book Did Not Do That. it’s dark and confronting and stunningly intimate at every turn. absolutely breathtakingly good. the song of achilles WISHES she could do half of what this book does