Weekly Reads || Featuring: A PALACE NEAR THE WIND by Ai Jiang

It is a beautiful yet brutal, wildly inventive story about a family who suffers loss, oppression, and rebellion. I did end up giving this one four stars.

The second thing that I read by her is a story called I am AI, and it is just about the terrifying future of creativity, artificial intelligence to name one of the many things, and just what that could look like in our future. This one's more science fiction, but I would say it has a healthy dose of horror in it as well.

So, the first thing that I read by her was a novella called Ling Hune, which is one of the most intriguing haunted house stories I've ever read. So, the surface story is about a haunted house, but there's a deeper theme of grief, loss, the loss of a loved one specifically, and it's so good.

I've been taking it slowly, just savoring it. This one has been such a great character development of I would say two characters mostly and oh my goodness it's been heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking but also has a lot of well-placed humor at least in my opinion

This one is my favorite in the series so far. I forgot how much I love this book. I forgot what all happened in this book until my memory got jostled as I was listening to it. And I am just absolutely loving it.