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Has anyone else read this book? It's one of my favorite books, ever. And yet, I cannot find a single person who has read it.
So I'm throwing it out there, as it's very, very good. It's set in a place that is like Tang dynasty-era China but not quite China, and involves an empress that is like Empress Wu but is not quite Empress Wu. It's mostly realistic, except that alchemy is a central plot element, and the religion people follow appears to be a Taoism/Hinduism hybrid. It's quite gynocentric.
I don't normally do fantasy (I like historical fiction though), but I picked this up on a whim a couple of years ago while it was still in hardback, and it blew me away.
So I'm throwing it out there, as it's very, very good. It's set in a place that is like Tang dynasty-era China but not quite China, and involves an empress that is like Empress Wu but is not quite Empress Wu. It's mostly realistic, except that alchemy is a central plot element, and the religion people follow appears to be a Taoism/Hinduism hybrid. It's quite gynocentric.
I don't normally do fantasy (I like historical fiction though), but I picked this up on a whim a couple of years ago while it was still in hardback, and it blew me away.