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[quote=Anonymous]I just finished The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo and really liked it. It takes place in 1930s Malaysia and depicts how several characters (a young orphaned servant boy, his dead identical twin, a young woman who works at a dance hall, her brother, and a foreign doctor) are all tied together through deaths, dreams, and missions (to return a severed finger to the grave of its dead owner). Local mythology plays a big role as well (Night Tiger).

I've also been enjoying listening to Darynda Jones's series on Sheriff Sunshine Vikram and a local cast of characters in Del Sol, New Mexico (A Bad Day for Sunshine, A Good Day for Chardonnay, A Hard Day for a Hangover). The premise is that she has returned to her hometown as sheriff (even though she didn't officially run) with her 15-year-old daughter whose origins are a mystery (Sunshine was abducted/assaulted at 17 and has memory loss). There's humor, crime, mysteries, and relationships.

My latest DNF was Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. It's supposed to be a play off Rumpelstiltskin. It started strong but then dragged on. This is another story involving mythology, this time of demons and icy Staryks. The main character is Miryem, who out off necessity learns how to "spin silver into gold" and has many characters who are trying to get themselves out of bad situations. The story switches between a lot of viewpoints and I found it engrossing to a point. [/quote]

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