Leaf 🍂 reviewed Scattering of Jades by Alexander C. Irvine
Review of 'Scattering of Jades' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
The mashup of 1800s North America with Aztec and Lenape mythology is brilliant. I sorta wish this weren't the only book.
Irvine has a didactic bent to his prose, and though it improves as the novel progresses it's admittedly a little hard to get through those first 65 pages. Still, once you do you have monstrous, mummified were-mages and spurned Aztec gods and dead men with vendettas and weird, bulbous grotesques. Who wouldn't be willing to do just a little bit of wading to get to that?