IN THE WATCHFUL CITY by S. Qiouyi Lu
- Publisher: Tordotcom, August 31st 2021
- Genre: Fantasy, Novella
- Format: Paperback (eARC)
- Page Count: 192 pages
- My Rating: ★★★★ (4/5)
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In the Watchful City is an Asian-centric adult queer fantasy novella about living (and death) with a heart-racing ending.
The main character Anima (æ/ær/ær) is part of the city’s surveillance system the Gleaming (think The Matrix), one of the eight nodes in the inner sanctum. When æ meets Vessel (se/ser/ser), who carries a qíjìtáng full of knickknacks and memories from different people, ær curiosity brings ær to realize that there is more to life than guarding the city of Ora.