The Tangleroot Palace & other stories by Marjorie Liu

(Titan Books, 2022)

Reviewed by John Dodd

I really like Monstress in all its volumes, so I was very interested to read the stories that came purely in words, so when The Tangleroot Palace came up for review, I was straight in there.

‘Sympathy for the Bones’ is a tale of magic and death, of family and the things that we must do for them, no matter what it costs us, no matter where it takes us. Most of all, it was about making your own choices, no matter what the family you have will make of them and living with the consequences or delights of those actions.

‘The Briar and the Rose’, a tale of two women, both of them monsters in their own way, but one with far more to quantify them as such. This isn’t just Sleeping Beauty, this is something else entirely.

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