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Listened to this as part of the LeVar Burton Reads podcast series.Damn...I mean ... Damn...The story is based around Chinese mythology, but I remember fairy tales with the same theme from my childhood in Denmark and I felt that this is a story that will resonate with people around the world. Here, the archetypes becomes humans of flesh and blood and it is beautiful and heartbreaking.
dla zainsteresowanych: jest to krótkie opowiadanie o Arlong (ze zbioru opowiadań o smokach)
This short story set in the grim dark fantasy world of R.F. Kuang's critically acclaimed the Poppy War Series was written for the 2020 anthology The Book of Dragons. The very excellent audio book version is performed by LeVar Burton (Lieutenant Georgi LaForge from Star Trek The Next Generation fame), in this podcast includes his thoughts on the story after it ends.It begins with two sisters journeying to a grotto. Along the way, they speculate on which is the true version of the fable told about...
This short story.
I found this short story from The Poppy War world in a podcast (you can find a link to it in Bibliography of R.F. Kuang's Wikipedia page).I liked that this story felt like a story you listen to when you are a kid before you go to bed. That aspect was really cute to me, but story itself is not entierly.The Nine Curves River is not related to the main events in the series so you can listen to it regardless whether or not you have read the trilogy, but I like that I've read this after reading the w...
Heartbreaking and beautiful. Listened to the audio version read by Levar Burton. Highly recommended.
Edit: I just read the first chapter of The Dragon Republic and WHAT!!!!! R.F. Kuang is a GENIUS! I want to start off by saying I love R.F. Kuang’s Poppy War series. And also that I generally don’t love short stories. I found this story to be a bit of a let down, it wasn’t particularly original (The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, and Uprooted by Naomi Novik come to mind). However, the POV was rather unique. All in all, not a bad story by any means, but not a great one either.
