A review by libron26
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

4.0

What I enjoy most about fantasy is a sense of the legendary, mythic, misty quality of storytelling that evokes a sense of mysterious other-worldliness. To me, Kalpa Imperial meets that in spades. It isn't a traditional novel with a main story but rather a bunch of different tales told by a storyteller about the greatest Empire known to man in this world. Through the stories the reader pieces together more and more of the history of this culture and see how it both is similar and different to ours. It reads like a mixture of history, legend, and myth all rolled into one. Some of the stories impacted me more than others. For example. I really liked the story of how the Empire fell and then was reborn out of its ruins. Later in the book, I liked the story of the noble who has to flee to the mysterious and unruly South. To me the stories themselves faded into the background while I drank in the fantasy setting of Kalpa Imperial. It is definitely a work that will continue to marinate in my mind.