A review by labocat
Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

3.0

3.5, and rounding down because I'm just not sure how I feel about it wrapping up. That said, I love sapphic retellings of well-loved stories, and this delivered on every count of that. We get more about Rosa's past than Hou Yi's, but as Hou Yi's seems to follow the myth fairly closely up to the point of Chang E taking the immortality potion, that's fine. There's a lot of interesting weaving together of western fairy tales, even though they're spread across in-world cultures, but I do wish we'd gotten to spend more time in the present of the novella than the past.