A review by wintersorbit
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

5.0

This was arguably my most anticipated release of the year and boy did it deliver! I have some minor nitpicks, but ultimately I'm so impressed with the massive tale that Parker-Chan condensed into this novel. The novel's exploration of queerness, and especially genderqueerness, rings so incredibly true. This book is a Chinese historical re-imagining with a hint of fantasy, but it also combines the scale of epic fantasy with the intimate, emotional character exploration that typically belongs to fanfiction (which the author has written their fair share of, I loved listening to them talk about it in this interview.