Review – The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
The Emperor and the Endless Palace is set across three time lines from ancient China to modern day Los Angeles. This doomed love triangle has little to offer.
The Emperor and the Endless Palace is set across three time lines from ancient China to modern day Los Angeles. This doomed love triangle has little to offer.
This is a book with the focus on children. Yes they are technically teenagers, but who are held accountable as adults.Β Children who are fulfilling adult obligations within their homes and on the streets.Β Even at school there is only a cursory attempt to treat them as minors. Femi Fadugba takes these issues and more, and crafts a a book that crosses genres, it is fantasy, it is science fiction, yet it is poignantly contemporary.
Wonderscape is one of those books that you pick up and after a couple of paragraphs ,think why isn’t this happening to me and why am I not on this adventure of a lifetime?
Who Goes Here? is funny, that has to be mentioned first. Not that you wouldn’t have noticed as it permeates the whole book: the characters, dialogue and situations are humorous and well articulated. But before you get the wrong idea, this isn’t a gagged filled romp with set pieces.