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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

9 reviews

indeedithappens's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Grief, Self harm, Alcohol, Colonisation, Gore, Infidelity, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Abandonment, Body horror, Blood, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

o_romeo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Stalking, Self harm, Infidelity, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content and Drug abuse

tinyjude's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

I enjoyed this one much more than the previous book. Nghi Vo's writing is once again breath-taking and each time I love the narrator more as well as the morally grey, but passionate, sapphics that exist in their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Stalking, Violence, Death, Animal death, and Blood

Minor: Sexual content

overbooked207's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

📖 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Book Review 📖

2nd book of January 2022 and 2nd of the year:

I loved the first book in this series, so I had to pick this up! Once again, I loved the beautiful, lush, and poetic writing and descriptions, the queerness in it, and the importance put on stories and storytelling. I didn’t enjoy this one quite as much as the first one, but I still really enjoyed it and find myself liking it more the more I think about it, and I recommend picking it up! TW for death, blood and gore, animal attacks, animal cruelty, animal deaths, murder, cannibalism, cheating, confinement, sexual content, and violence🎧🐅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Infidelity, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Murder, and Confinement

nyoom's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity and Stalking

Minor: Death of parent and Sexual content

firefly's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity

words_and_coffee's review

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Infidelity

spiritedfaraway's review

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

“What are you doing?”
“Telling a story.”

I thought I couldn’t love Nghi Vo’s writing more than I already did, but I was wrong. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain is the companion novella to The Empress of Salt and Fortune. It again follows Chih, a traveling cleric looking for history and stories to document, and involves a story within a story.

On this adventure Chih and their companions end up at the mercy of three fierce tiger sisters. Stranded and cold, to get out alive Chih must entertain the sisters with a story. But the tigers have their own version of the story and it varies wildly from the one Chih knows.

“Well, then? What’s the real story?”

In this novella you’ll find:
- a tiger/scholar sapphic courtship and romance.
- poetry.
- a traveling non-binary cleric too curious for their own good.
- a mammoth rider with a lance.
- three tiger sisters.
- storytelling and how truth can vary from retelling to retelling, from culture to culture.

This novella was everything I wanted and more. I hope Nghi Vo continues to write about Chih and their adventures. These books have truly been a delight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Drug use, Gore, and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity

madarauchiha's review

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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This is the second in a loosely connected series and everything I wanted. I love the world built in the previous story, it's just barely connected to the previous one. It stands on its own, and perfectly so. It's got lesbian romance and a nonbinary they/them main character! Yes, oh my god, please write more??

minor drugs, 
medium nudity, gore, body horror, cannibalism, death, murder,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Infidelity, Gore, and Death