Drop everything! A Mouthful of Dust, the 6th novella in Nghi Vo's The Singing Hills Cycle, is out today!

This isn't so much a review as a disorganized non-spoiler rant from an excited reader who wants other people to talk about this book with. Have any of you read it yet? Are you excited to?

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Vo has delivered another beautiful and haunting little story about storytelling. This time Cleric Chih is on their way to collect stories of a town devastated by a famine in recent history.

I'm really glad to see a novella that focuses on storytelling through food in this series. It's a perfect fit. I feel like the recipes we share through generations and our vivid food memories are some of the most common and human stories we tell.

Throughout the novella, some harrowing and devastating stories of surviving through famine, stories some characters would prefer go unrecorded. It was one of the darker novellas in the series so far but still as stunning as they always are. I only wish there had been a bit more of Almost Brilliant.

I got my hands on the novella at 2 pm, and had read it by 4! I don't think I've ever taken more than one sitting to read any of these books as they are just too enchanting to put down. But this one was especially bite sized at a short 90 pages.

5/5 stars from me, as they all have been so far. But mostly I'm curious to hear what you guys think about it!