Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

Rivera, K. Arsenault, The Tiger’s Daughter. Tor. $15.99. 528p. PB. 9780765392534 The Tiger’s Daughter opens on a young empress lounging in her room, preparing for her day. She receives a package from one of her senior house servants, who remarks that the handwriting is terrible. The empress immediately knows from whom the package came and declares that she is not to be disturbed unless she calls for an attendant. This is how the story of O-Shizuka, Divine Empress of Hokkaro, and Barsalayya Shefali, Qorin warrior, begins. The story unfolds through the letters Shefali has written to Shizuka, recounting all that they’ve […]