I think my main problem is that I started to get a little tired of the arabesque stories-within-stories structure after a while - at a certain point I realized that it was becoming hard to care about the one-shot stories that only lasted a few pages and were never returned to later on. I still loved In the Cities of Coin and Spice but I'm sad to say a bit of the luster was lost this time around. I had never read anything quite like it before and it was entrancing through and through. The first book in this series, In the Night Garden, was one of my favorite reads last year. Well, see, there's this feral girl with stories marking her eyes and a lonely prince and they're in a garden and all her stories intersect and build off each other in a mysterious, magical way.
"Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.” For here the story never ends and the magic is only beginning. Open it anywhere and you will fall under its spell. Graced with the magical illustrations of Michael Kaluta, In the Cities of Coins and Spice is a book of dreams and wonders unlike any you’ve ever encountered. Nothing is too fantastic, anything can happen, but you’ll never guess what comes next in these intimately linked adventures of firebirds and djinn, singing manticores, mutilated unicorns, and women made entirely of glass and gears. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers. Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan’s eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history.
Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in the next book of Orphan’s Tales-an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday.
Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden.
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