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    The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
    The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
    The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
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    The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

    Written by Zen Cho

    Narrated by Nancy Wu

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    Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.

    A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there.

    Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 23, 2020
    ISBN9781980081838
    Author

    Zen Cho

    Zen Cho was born and raised in Malaysia and now lives in Birmingham. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for her short fiction and won the Crawford Award. Her debut novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, won the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Newcomer. She is also the author of The True Queen and Black Water Sister.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent from start to finish from top to bottom. The narration by Nancy Wu is spectacular, she is so engaging and entertaining. The story is gripping and fun. I love the witty funny dialogues the most. Also we love queer characters in ownvoices Asian-inspired fantasy stories.

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    • 4/5
      An enjoyable story with a cast of interesting characters, but the narrator’s mispronounciation of Malay words was extremely grating, as was the way she spoke the dialogue written in Malaysian-English vernacular.

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    • 4/5
      3 and a half stars. novella. i was geared up for this one to be really good, and the Malayesque world had great potential, but really not much happened, i was sort of disappointed. i'll keep my eye on the author, though; maybe the next story in this setting will be the charm.
    • 3/5
      Atmosphere was amazing as the description of the political climate around the characters. Story was kinda meh but worth a listen for the trip
    • 4/5
      A short but interesting read. I really felt that, particularly for a novella, an amazing job was done in setting up the world and the characters. Very enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      The thing about novellas is that when they're written so well you want them to be longer. :(
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this audiobook. The narrator did a fantastic job. I loved the story and the banter between the characters made me smile, as it reminded me of the banter between my friends and I.
    • 3/5
      A fascinating tale that draws inspiration from the post war period in the Malay peninsula. I would have enjoyed it much more if I had read it simply because the pronunciation of Malay words and places was so grating.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the rare books where I picked it up at the library, semi-randomly, read it, loved it, and shortly thereafter had to go out and buy my own copy of it to keep on my shelves.It's a queer little wuxia tale of a sweaty group of found-family bandits, with Malay cultural influences and a lovely dry humor. I absolutely loved the world and Cho's writing style. I would love to read like five more of these.
    • 4/5
      If you’re not familiar with some aspects of Chinese culture you may feel a bit like you’ve been dropped in the deep end, but it is a fantasy so we’re used to that. Enjoyable story and interesting characters, I would absolutely read a novel set in this world. In fact, the ending of this novella seems like a perfect setup for a novel…
    • 5/5
      Does a great job of a fantasy setting with an assumption that the reader knows what s going on, even though I have no idea whether any of the political groups are meant to represent any specific historical factions/countries/etc. Very much a colonisation narrative at that level though. Works really well.
    • 3/5
      Tet Sang is part of a group of bandits who run into trouble after a nun from the Order of the Pure Moon insists on joining them and uncovers the truth of their mission.This was intriguing. Definitely intriguing. Occasionally amusing. A well-constructed story. I wouldn’t mind reading more about these characters.
    • 5/5
      A bandit walks into a coffeehouse and is quietly drinking his tea when a dispute breaks out between a waitress and a customer. Soon it becomes a major fight, in which the bandit, Lau Fung Cheung, and another bandit, Tet Sang, play a major role.Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, is working as a waitress in the coffeehouse after her tokong was attacked and everyone else killed. She's alive because she was an anchorite, protected by her walls until she realized it had been too long between food deliveries. She emerged to find the devastation. She's not really a very good waitress, and she's a worse assistant cook, so she's fired without hesitation for the fight.Guet Imm then joins the bandit gang, whether they want her or not.She has no idea what she's getting into, but then, neither do the bandits. Or, as they prefer to call themselves, contractors.The contractors are transporting a very special load of goods to a very particular buyer. Lau Fung Cheung, head of the gang, has perhaps not kept all his promises to his men. Tet Sang, second in command, and maker of many of the important decisions, has secrets he'd prefer the rest of the contractors don't know. Guet Imm really is a young and somewhat naïve votary of her order, but she's something more than just that.Also, this is just a really interesting world to wander around in.There are things I would love to comment on that would be major spoilers.Highly recommended.I bought this book.
    • 4/5
      While I was certainly entertained by this novella, it starts out with such a bang, that the rest of this story, involving a nun and a gang of bandits, set against the background of imperial suppression, pales in comparison. Basically it's a portrait miniature of the nun (anchoress to be precise) and the main POV character. That there might be more stories forthcoming in this milieu is something I would look forward to.
    • 4/5
      This is a charming tale of derring-do set in a fantasy China in the midst of civil war. It's the bandits mixing with the religious types and the religious types hold all the cards. It's not clear whether their powers depend on magic or training. Mixed in is a bit of transsexual romance which gradually surfaces - as these things have a wont to do. After a few broken necks, the principles live happily ever after. I would have preferred to have a book with more heft to it in terms of plot (more setup) and have characters with a bit more background. But overall lovely and jewel-like.
    • 4/5
      It’s not easy being a waitress. Ofttimes you’re not appreciated for all the hard work. Make sure you get all the orders right, especially for your most finicky of customers, try to ignore the occasional ogling and pinching of your bottom when you walk away. It’s even more challenging when you’ve just started your job at a coffeehouse and the customer thinks you’re a witch. Enter a kind-hearted bandit, lose your job, and where are you going to go? The small group of bandits of course. Just invite yourself along on their journey to deliver some items and you’ll figure out some way to help them. It’s definitely not your cooking skills, you’re not going to sleep with them unless they won’t mind you cleansing yourself in the blood of their castration to pay homage to your deity, but at least they smell a bit better after cleaning their clothes. This Malaysian-infused tale, tranquil at times in its presentation, is filled with beauty, Queer characters, and light-hearted wit. There’s a silent war taking place in the background with unpredictable people, mistrust on all sides, and innocents caught in the middle. The Protectorate seeks to establish its hold over the country and the Reformist bandits are rather getting in the way. Caught up in the fray, the tokong (monastic temples) have been burned and sacked. The Protectorate believes they are aiding the bandits and the bandits think they are being sold out to the Protectorate. Our stumbling bandits just want their pay to take care of their families and maybe have a little fun on the side. The bandits’ misadventures take them through leech-filled jungles to the home of a wealthy powerbroker to fulfill an honorable quest in an untrustworthy world. One of the bandits, Tet Sang, and the waitress, Guet Imm, are at the heart of this wuxia-inspired tale. As their carefully guarded secrets come to light, they are drawn together and set along a path neither could have imagined.
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    • 4/5
      A lovely story. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but after an initial set-up that seemed to promise a martial-arts & magic-fueled adventure, I was pleasantly surprised by how this turned instead to something character-driven, pondering identity and choice against a background of confused political and religious realities.