When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds from ravaging the countryside, their quest will take the two women, now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, into a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family and the quest for immortality.
"We are just two old women… Old women who have hurt their children". S.L. Huang's Burning Roses is a novella on the short side that manages to package so much in so few pages, weaving retellings of many Western fairy tales with a Chinese myth into a queer story that explores how flawed parents can damage their children, and how to come back from there and atone for it. It's a beautiful gem that also presents and explores multiple wlw relationships.
✨ 4 stars
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