It's probably my favorite trope, and it means so much to me to finally see a book focus specifically on an f/f version of it. I didn't mind that I was there for the villain romance, and all the conflicting feelings that come with it. If you're looking for something that is about political intrigue and a revolution, you're going to be disappointed - they're the background, not the focus. Lady Han loved this terrible woman, and hated her just as much, and this is about how those feelings can coexist, and this complicated, twisted relationship.

It is much more personal than that, it's a story about love and loss and grief, and it deliberately doesn't focus on Hekate's downfall, because that's not what was important to Lady Han to begin with. This ended up being my favorite novella in the series. How dare you.) It makes up for the details lost in the telling with a narrative voice that you will remember, and maybe exactly because of the few descriptions you're given, the few details you know are even more memorable. You already vaguely know how the story ends, and you're being told by Lady Han what happened, and yet it works - maybe too much? ( Those were my FEELINGS, book.

The Tensorate is a series of novellas written in unusual formats, some of which worked for me more than others, and when I heard that The Ascent to Godhood was to be a transcription of ' a drunken monologue', I thought this wouldn't work for me at all. It follows how the two met, the times they spent together, and how the relationship fell apart - so, yes, it's basically an f/f villain romance, with delicious intrigue in the background.

The Ascent to Godhood is about the relationship between Hekate, the series' villainess, and Lady Han, a courtesan-turned-revolutionary. «El ascenso a lo divino» es el final épico e inolvidable que la saga merecía aunque por favor, necesito saber más de este universo y de estos personajes porque no puedo vivir ya sin ellos. Creo que pocos libros dicen tantas cosas en tan pocas páginas y de manera tan entretenida que te hace saltar del asiento.

todo eso en un maravilloso monólogo de tú a tú.Īmo esta saga. Soy una persona de villanos y de personajes grises, me encantan, así que conocer de mano de su amante el pasado de la protectora, el origen del Protectorado como lo conocemos, las intrigas políticas y palaciegas, la familia, los engaños, las rebeliones, la lucha de poder. En todos los libros rogaba porque la madre de Akeha y Mokoya tuviera su momento y cuando llegó no podía imaginarme lo que iba a disfrutarlo. Pero yo por lo menos estuve todo el tiempo esperando ESTO. Con «Las mareas negras del cielo», mi libro favorito de la saga del Tensorado, y eso que es difícil elegir porque me gustan todos muchísimo.

The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang