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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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This standalone fantasy goes incredibly hard.

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

February 16, 2026 by narfna 16 Comments

Sending up the Bat Signal on this book, my first use of it this year. (FYI the last time I used it was with The Raven Scholar, my best book of 2025, so you know it’s serious.) I wouldn’t recommend this book as widely or as often as I have The Raven Scholar, but for a certain type of reader, this thing will hit hard. (As it hit me. Last night, crying softly on my couch as I opined to myself, IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL.) First […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, epic fantasy, narfna, Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

narfna's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, epic fantasy, narfna, Shen Tao, The Poet Empress ·
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