50books_poc | BILFTR*: Burning Roses, by SL Huang

*Book I look forward to reading

Burning Roses by SL Huang is out today. Here is how Huang described the book to their personal mailing list:

I wrote this book, and it's out today. I like it a lot. It's about Red Riding Hood. If she turned into an assassin.

And then fell in love with Beauty from Beauty and the Beast.

But then she had to flee her crimes halfway around the world.... where she teams up with Hou Yi the Archer from Chinese mythology, famed for bow and arrow skills magnificent enough to shoot suns out of the sky. The partnership works quite well, because Red Riding Hood is a crack shot with a rifle.... dun dun DUNNNNN.

Anyway, if you want to read about two queer, middle-aged markswomen who are having adventures in fantasy!China while angsting about their families and their pasts, you might like this book. Also starring: Goldilocks as an abusive con artist and the Jade Rabbit as an obnoxious dream guide.

(I am still crap at posting reviews, but I thought that this announcement was too good not to share.)