A review by rara2018
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran

1.0

I almost could’ve semi-enjoyed this book if it weren’t for the totally scammy premise that this is nonfiction. The book itself has a fiction disclaimer at the beginning, and the so-called true story is literally just stereotype after stereotype. None of the characters came to life in the slightest, and I couldn’t get any grasp of the timeline. It was just “we did nothing, random bad thing, back to nothing again”. I wanted to like this since I usually love translated works and have enjoyed basically all Chinese pieces I’ve read, but this just felt utterly contrived. Wen felt like a caricature of a person. Ugh. So disappointing.