A review by rikerandom
In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard

4.0

This was … weird? But in a good way! Dark and slightly creepy and I couldn't shake the feeling that I missed some kind of prologue or introduction or previous stories set in this universe? There was this whole feeling of missing just this small thing, this one fact, that kept just out of reach. I still enjoyed the story very, very much but it was kinda strange. I also totally lacked the necessary knowledge about the cultural background of this story, because I'm woefully ignorant about everything but whitebread-western-european-stuff. So no idea how many details I missed because of that but I'm guessing the story only gets more impressive if you have a connection to its cultural background.