Strange Beasts of China

I could not have guessed how much I would have loved this - which was a lot. It's a meld of short stories of a journalist writing about different beasts of her world combined with a connected time arc. Plot-driven readers might not like this, but those who like fantastical creatures might. Also I would not call this a comfort read, the world is a dark one so much so that it's almost like a dystopia, but there's the heart, emotion and complexity there that I crave from my books.