Taiwan - The City Trilogy - Hsi-kuo Chang

12th June 2023:

Purchased the book after a twitter recommendation. Took a few weeks to arrive but arrived today.

11th August 2023:

Read the first 4 chapters of book 1 (Five Jade Rings). I started with the translators notes and some of the history of Hsi-kuo Chang, and it was really dry and dull, and didn't hold up much hope for the book. I was also thinking it was going to be more fantasy rather than sci fi, from the titles of the books. The physical book was a little intimidating too, long chapters each page was pretty big with a LOT of lines per page and a lot of words per line. All this filled me with dread and automatically put me on the back foot. 

But after reading the prologue, I was totally hooked. The prologue alone was an epic story of a ginormous bronze statue that overshadowed the 'City' that the trilogy is all about!