"Hidden Cities" reviewed
Mar. 3rd, 2011 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceLiz Bourke reviews Hidden Cities, in the pages of Ideomancer.
Money shot:
This is a book about what is ruined, and what is left: about surviving war, betrayal, injury, life, and building anew. The ‘hidden cities’ of the title are, by implication, those things which are preserved and remade: the palace the emperor is building in the centre of Taishu, the dowager empress who preserved her emperor-son so that he could remake his empire, pregnant Mei Feng, the survivors of Santung, even, perhaps, the dragon herself.
Money shot:
This is a book about what is ruined, and what is left: about surviving war, betrayal, injury, life, and building anew. The ‘hidden cities’ of the title are, by implication, those things which are preserved and remade: the palace the emperor is building in the centre of Taishu, the dowager empress who preserved her emperor-son so that he could remake his empire, pregnant Mei Feng, the survivors of Santung, even, perhaps, the dragon herself.