When Passion Play was first released in hardcover back in 2010, it had a far more accurate cover art than this mass market paperback reissue. This particular cover indicates an action heroine in the usual "stare at my butt while I wield a dagger and glare angrily at you for staring at my butt" co...
I picked this book up at a dollar store, and finally had the time to open it. Passion Play reads like a historical novel mixed with an Arabian nights tale, except the country described is purely fictional. There's the story of women as property, of the haves and the have-nots, of the powers of ...
3.5 stars...so I'm rounding up.Fox and Phoenix was a great little story. I think what stood out to me most was the wonderful world building. Everything about the world of Long City and the Phoenix Empire (and everything lying in between) was very well fleshed out and felt like a plausible history...