Burning Roses

Name: Burning Roses
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: S.L. Huang
ISBN: 9781705287026

Author: S.L. Huang

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Unabridged: 3 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/18/2021

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods.

Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she's past her prime.

They would both rather just be retired, but that's not what the world has ready for them.

When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they've both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that's a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family, and the quest for immortality.

About S.L. Huang

S. L. Huang is a Hollywood stunt performer, firearms expert, and Hugo Award-winning writer with a math degree from MIT and credits in productions like Battlestar Galactica and Top Shot. The author of the Cas Russell novels, including Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point, as well as the fantasy novella Burning Roses, Huang's short fiction has also appeared in Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nature, Tor.com, and more, including numerous best-of anthologies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly (Holly Hearts Books)

Burning Roses is a queer Asian adult fantasy following two old women. Rosa, resembling little red riding hood with a rifle in her possession. The other Hou Yi, resembling Robin Hood. They enjoy sitting on their front porch smoking pipes and digging insults into each other, and protecting the land fr......more

Goodreads review by Maja

INTERESTING BLEND OF EASTERN AND WESTERN FAIRY TALES Someone recommended me this book with the words 'It's Sapphic Chinese fairy tales!" So, naturally, I had to get my hands on it! And I am very glad that I did! Though short and with a minor flaw or two, it was interesting, captivating and queer, so......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)

Burning Roses is a fantasy novella that has a lot of cool ideas, but for whatever reason just didn't come together for me. It felt like it was trying to do too much, lacked cohesion, and made some choices about narrative structure that I wasn't really a fan of. Here are some things I liked: - Casuall......more