review of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN up at CHIRB!
Yesterday was a pretty big day! In addition to the cover reveal for SCORPICA going up on the interwebs, my latest review for CHIRB also went live. I raved about Shelley Parker-Chan’s SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN, “both inseparable from its real-life inspiration and wholly original.“
A sneak peek into my thoughts on Parker-Chan’s debut:
It may seem odd to keep coming back to “original” as praise for a story based on real-life events and people, but the word kept springing to mind as I read. Perhaps “imaginative” would apply just as well. She Who Became the Sun beautifully illustrates how the fantasy genre opens up to embrace anything an author can imagine—not just ghosts and goblins, but new ways of exploring and interrogating gender and identity, prejudice and violence, history and humanity.