Puss Reboots: Blog: July 2024: Into the Riverlands

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Into the Riverlands: 07/04/24

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo (2022) is the third book in the Singing Hills Cycle. It begins with a bar fight that Chih and Almost Brilliant witness. Afterwards they meet up with the women involved and share each others stories as they trek through the riverlands.

This novella though it continues on the path of multilayered storytelling is more in the present — in Chih's present — than the previous had been. Chih is there to question the tales being told and to react to them. I liked having more of them and their avian companion to ground the stories.

Like the previous two, this thin book, coming in at exactly one hundred pages is layered and nuanced. No word is wasted. No gesture is filler. Every thing has meaning and purpose. What this means for me, is a solid understanding of how much I've probably missed at this first go with the book.

The next book in the series is Mammoths at the Gates (2023).

Five stars