Interior Chinatown Review

Hello! I recently finished reading Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. This novel is deeply thought provoking, reflective, and challenging while maintaining moments of joy, hope, humor and inspiration. This book could not be more different from my previous read, Mistborn. As such, the review is formatted differently– for instance, there’s no magic system to talkContinue reading “Interior Chinatown Review”

Mistborn Review

Mistborn takes place in the Final Empire, a nation that dominates the entirety of the known world. The immortal emperor, the Lord Ruler, has made the empire a place of despair– the peasant class, the skaa, have been beaten down and forced into submission for the past thousand years, while the nobility put them to work and subject them to abuses in the fields, mines, and forges. Ash falls from the sky, and nothing is green in the world.