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A review by ameserole
Sky Burial by Xinran
4.0
Sky Burial was a really good book. I honestly wouldn't have read it on my own until I had a task for a couple of different challenges. I went into this book with no expectations because honestly with a title like this.. I was bound to assume all sort of wrong things.
This is a story about Shu Wen. a young newlywed who watches her husband of four long months head off to war. Shortly after that, he's killed and she get's a letter with little to none information about how or why it happened. So she does what any heartbreaking widow would do - she leaves for Tibet to find her justice. She still believes he is actually alive and will leave no stone unturned until she finds out the truth.
Sky Burial,/I> was a beautiful story. It was interesting to see how her years of searching, which is about 30 years, went. The journey she went on and what she was just breathtaking. I ended up loving Shu Wen pretty early on because she had so much faith that her husband was alive. That faith brought her to some foreign place where she wouldn't give up looking for him.
Now even though I ended up loving this story I will admit it did have it's boring parts. Mostly because this book is read more like a diary than anything else.. and I'm kind of iffy about those. However, it's my own fault that I didn't do any research or prepare myself for this type of book or writing style.
Overall, I loved Shu Wen so much that this book definitely deserves four freaking fantastic stars. I'm happy I got to read a new author and that I'm getting one step closer to finish my alphabet author challenge.
This is a story about Shu Wen. a young newlywed who watches her husband of four long months head off to war. Shortly after that, he's killed and she get's a letter with little to none information about how or why it happened. So she does what any heartbreaking widow would do - she leaves for Tibet to find her justice. She still believes he is actually alive and will leave no stone unturned until she finds out the truth.
Sky Burial,/I> was a beautiful story. It was interesting to see how her years of searching, which is about 30 years, went. The journey she went on and what she was just breathtaking. I ended up loving Shu Wen pretty early on because she had so much faith that her husband was alive. That faith brought her to some foreign place where she wouldn't give up looking for him.
Now even though I ended up loving this story I will admit it did have it's boring parts. Mostly because this book is read more like a diary than anything else.. and I'm kind of iffy about those. However, it's my own fault that I didn't do any research or prepare myself for this type of book or writing style.
Overall, I loved Shu Wen so much that this book definitely deserves four freaking fantastic stars. I'm happy I got to read a new author and that I'm getting one step closer to finish my alphabet author challenge.