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It was good to return to the Singing Hills Cycle — and to see the actual Singing Hills this time! The writing is lyrical as Nghi Vo’s has been for the other nivelkas in this series, and this time the picture they paint is about grief and change.
We meet Chih’s childhood best friend, Ru, who they have grown apart from some as their lives took different paths. We meet the memory of Cleric Thien, being laid to rest as they died recently. We meet Thien’s granddaughters, who never knew them but have come on the account of their recently deceased grandmother. And we meet Almost Brilliant’s chick.
There’s a lot of quiet tension here, between the conflict between the clerics and the granddaughters, the things you discover about someone cleaning up what they left behind, and the grief that comes with change as well as loss, but the journey makes for a story that will linger with me.
It was good to return to the Singing Hills Cycle — and to see the actual Singing Hills this time! The writing is lyrical as Nghi Vo’s has been for the other nivelkas in this series, and this time the picture they paint is about grief and change.
We meet Chih’s childhood best friend, Ru, who they have grown apart from some as their lives took different paths. We meet the memory of Cleric Thien, being laid to rest as they died recently. We meet Thien’s granddaughters, who never knew them but have come on the account of their recently deceased grandmother. And we meet Almost Brilliant’s chick.
There’s a lot of quiet tension here, between the conflict between the clerics and the granddaughters, the things you discover about someone cleaning up what they left behind, and the grief that comes with change as well as loss, but the journey makes for a story that will linger with me.