A review by masterofdoom
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

5.0

Breaking the hearts of the readers has never been more wonderful! This is a book for the lovers of opera and piano music, of Second Empire Paris and plots full of twists and mysteries, of gorgeous dresses and women who refuse to be drowned by the waves of men's history. The Queen of the Night is the most operatic novel I have ever read and Alexander Chee deserves all the praise in the world for what he had achieved.