Welcome to Lightning Reviews! For the uninitiated, this is where we run smaller, more bite-sized reviews of books, usually as a pair or trio. I think the subject line here pretty much says it all. We have a book with mermaids and a book with dragons being reviews. Both are queer and magical.
After the Dragons is a subtle, tender love story set in a near-future Beijing in which dragons are as real as the climate change which has brought drought to the city. Eli, the biracial son of two professors, has come to Beijing as an exchange student, wanting to learn more about the city that his grandmother loved too much to leave, even when faced with a terminal diagnosis. Kai has received the same diagnosis as … Continue reading After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
