I think part of the problem was trying to pack so much into so little. There is no urgency to the plot, the story is straightforward with only two minor events that could even be possibly considered twists (only one of which actually affects anything), and the characters are brief sketches more than fully realized people. It reads a lot more like a long fairy tale or folktale than a novel or novella. This book is very short – just under 4 hours in audiobook form, 176 pages according to The StoryGraph. So there’s two parts to this review: What I thought of what’s contained between the covers, and the context that somehow didn’t end up in the book itself. Not so much in the story, but in the details and context that aren’t actually in the story and that I only found while researching for this review. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined. Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.Ī bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Trigger Warnings: War (mentions), violence, blood, death, genocide (mentions), sexual harassment (brief), gun violence, deadnaming Back Cover: Title: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

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