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The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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Short but powerful, we slowly uncover the schemes of the past through remnants and trinkets left in a dead woman's once-residence. Despite the length it covers a lot both plot and character-wise, and it ends on a rather bittersweet note that hit me much harder than I was expecting from a novella.

As a side note, it reminded me a little of The Waves by Virginia Woolf, where each scene is a turning point for the characters involved, from the perspective of a character. Personally I'm a fan of this structure, where each time we 'see' the characters they change and develop a little more.

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