Review of Joshua Lim, “Voices of Kings,” Fantasy Magazine 94 (August 2023): 8 — Read online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
This was a lovely little story circling around the question “Who gets to be king?” Is it the person that someone else has appointed as king? Is it the person everyone agrees is their king? Is it — the relevant question for this story — the one who can sing the most beautiful? In posing and answering these questions, Lim strikes the perfect note of mythology, bringing Malaysian folktales to a wider audience.
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