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Review: 'The City in Glass' by Nghi Vo

On Thursday my dad sent me the short list for the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize and I realised that it not only featured one of my favourite books of last year ( The West Passage  by Jared Pechacek), but also a book I had waiting for me on my Kindle: The City in Glass  by Nghi Vo. So I finally sat down with it and pretty much fell in love at page 2. I think Nghi Vo has become one of my favourite authors now because this book enchanted me. Thanks to Tordotcom and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this novella in exchange for an honest review. Pub. Date : 01/10/2024 Publisher : Tordotcom; Tor Publishing Group A demon. An angel. A city. The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot. And then the angels come, and the city falls. Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the nam...

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