A review by rinbee
The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang

5.0

A few years ago, I picked up this book on its own knowing nothing of the series and read it. I loved it then, and now having read it in its intended order (i.e....after the first book) I loved it even more. The writing is just as beautiful as it is in the Black Tides, and tackles grief, trauma, fear, and love in vivid and compelling prose. It's not a continuation of the first book exactly—which becomes a theme for the following two books in the series—but a part of a greater cycle of fate involving the characters. This book dives deeper into how the magic system (Slackcraft) works and how Mokoya's understanding of it is just a fragment of a bigger whole. And, off to the side where the narrator couldn't see, a miniature Neon Genesis Evangelion was occurring between some of the supporting cast. Overall such an amazing book and a great second installment in this lovely series!