Oh, Nghi Vo strikes again! This book's first look itself is enough evidence to the artistry with which Vo writes — you can quite literally feel the longing in our main character, the yearning for a future where she is the one in power. The goal of being reborn from someone who has always had little power to someone who can hold a room simply with their presence is something incredibly personal to me as well.
A young Asian kid, the name-calling, the careful ways in which we dealt with every micro (and not-so-micro) aggressions against us and the consistent forced inferiority really resonates. Asian history in America is nearly always ignored — seeing the exclusion acts mentioned as a real damaging factor, seeing actual examples of subjugation in a daily life — it brings recognition. Recognition to stories which unfortunately have gone untold for decades.
I cannot wait to read more of Siren Queen and more from Nghi Vo as well. Iconic, showstopping and absolutely explosive.
A young Asian kid, the name-calling, the careful ways in which we dealt with every micro (and not-so-micro) aggressions against us and the consistent forced inferiority really resonates. Asian history in America is nearly always ignored — seeing the exclusion acts mentioned as a real damaging factor, seeing actual examples of subjugation in a daily life — it brings recognition. Recognition to stories which unfortunately have gone untold for decades.
I cannot wait to read more of Siren Queen and more from Nghi Vo as well. Iconic, showstopping and absolutely explosive.