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In the Vanishers’ Palace

By: Aliette de Bodard
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
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From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land....

A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind, cold and aloof but desperately trying to make a difference.

When failed scholar Yên is sold to Vu Côn, one of the last dragons walking the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Côn's amusement.

But Vu Côn, it turns out, has a use for Yên: she needs a scholar to tutor her two unruly children. She takes Yên back to her home, a vast, vertiginous palace-prison where every door can lead to death. Vu Côn seems stern and unbending, but as the days pass Yên comes to see her kinder and caring side. She finds herself dangerously attracted to the dragon who is her master and jailer. In the end, Yên will have to decide where her own happiness lies - and whether it will survive the revelation of Vu Côn's dark, unspeakable secrets....

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Aliette de Bodard (P)2019 Tantor Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The author manages to create a sense of eerie suspense throughout the entire book, brought to life by a lovely, poetically descriptive writing style. For me the only negative was the lack of a clear development over time of the characters’ emotional connections - or perhaps it was just muted by the more subtle writing style of the book. In either case, the book was a nice change from the usual fluff of sapphic romance.

Beautifully written

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