She was the joint winner of the Crawford Award in 2015 for her short story collection Spirits Abroad.
She is known for her Sorcerer to the Crown series. I would definitely recommend this book to readers looking for a quick fantasy adventure.Zen Cho is a Malaysian fantasy author based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Since its scant 176 pages might be all we get of the world of The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, I have to be satisfied with what I got: nuns with strange powers, comic relief, oaths and bargains, double-crosses, gender-bending, and almost non-stop action.
I suspect other readers will, too, given how imaginative this story is. I really wanted more of this story and more of its characters. Cho also adds details about an ongoing war between a militant Protectorate and a defeated old order that had me longing for more pages. Tet Sang and Guet Imm have astonishing stories behind them-so much so that the characters argue with each other about whether it was chance or divine Providence that brought them together. These reasons are slowly revealed at the same time we learn more about the job Fung Chueng’s band is working.įor such a short novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water contains a surprising amount of backstory.
He is so annoyed, in fact, that we have to realize that Tet Sang must have bigger reasons for wanting Guet Imm to disappear with a quickness. She offers to cook and clean for the bandits, but she mostly gets the job through sheer stubbornness. Tet Sang and the waitress, an ex-nun called Guet Imm, then proceed to steal the show from the devil-may-care Fung Cheung.Īfter the brawl and Guet Imm’s also-inevitable firing from the inn, Guet Imm tracks down the gang and refuses to leave. After the inevitable fight, Fung Cheung’s second in command, Tet Sang, arrives with purses of cash to sooth hurt feelings. All he wanted was something hot to drink at a coffeehouse but, when another customer accuses the waitress of hexing him, Fung Cheung decides to defend the waitress. Lau Fung Cheung makes a fantastic entrance in The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water. Even though the novella is brief, it turned out to be a fun ride with surprising depths. Zen Cho’s brief novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, tells the story of what might be the gang’s most challenging job yet. The men of Lau Fung Cheung’s band not only have to work odd jobs for a bit of cash to keep them in rice but it seems like they can’t even walk into a town without getting caught in a brawl.
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