The Empress of Salt and Fortune

3 ⭐️

Obviously are reviews are subjective, but I want to emphasize that all my ‘issues' with this book are purely personal preference. I think this was well-written and it is clearly beloved by many! I just didn't really jive with the writing style, it's very much a story-inside-a-story and I had trouble parsing it all out. The prose is truly beautiful though, and the characters are all distinct and interesting. I did feel like a lot of the relationships were implied rather than spelled out; I tagged this as ‘polyamorous' and don't even know if that's canon but it is how I read it personally.

I'll definitely be recommending this even if it didn't quite work for me, and while I don't intend to continue the series I'll still be keeping an eye out for Vo's future works.