Mammoths at the Gates Book Review

Mammoths at the Gates

By: Nghi Vo

Publish Date: 12 September 2023

Publisher: Tor Publishing Group, Tordotcom

Sci Fi, Fantasy

I would like to thank both NetGalley and Tor Publishing for allowing me to read and review this book.

Good Reads Synposis:

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest.

Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass–and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal mammoths, demanding their grandfather’s body for burial. Chih must somehow balance honoring their mentor’s chosen life while keeping the sisters from the north from storming the gates and destroying the history the clerics have worked so hard to preserve.

But as Chih and their neixin Almost Brilliant navigate the looming crisis, Myriad Virtues, Cleric Thien’s own beloved hoopoe companion, grieves her loss as only a being with perfect memory can, and her sorrow may be more powerful than anyone could anticipate. . .

Book Review:

This is the fourth and final book in the series. I gave this book 3 stars. I wasn’t as invested in this book as the one before it. This story seemed to drag on for me. I did like that I could feel their pain of a lost one. I kept getting lost in the story and having to go back in the book to figure out what was going on and who was who. I really wish I could have given this last book a better rating and review, but the book was just ok for me.