The Empress of Salt and Fortune

I read this book because it is the first of a series of novellas of which the third was nominated for a 2023 Lambda Literary Award. It is a much loved story with a big fan base. Well, I didn't care for it. I found it gorgeously written, but hard to follow. In fact, I was lost through most of it until the end. It's told in a series of flashbacks by a handmaiden of an empress in a pseudo-China empire. Fortunately, the other books are not direct sequels, though it follows the journey of Cleric Chih, to whom in this book the flashbacks are relayed.

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