This read quite easily and unfortunately I feel like I may have breezed through it a little too quickly- there were some moments where I had to backtrack a few pages because suddenly an event had happened and I'd somehow missed how we got there (downsides of starting it before bed I suppose).

I really appreciate not having explanatory commas for common words that firmly place it in a Malaysian context (except for an Occidental dress lol). Definitely felt like a short arc within a season of something, a quick jaunt into an intriguing world without laying too thick into worldbuilding because we don't have time in a novella! ( )

A sparkling tale of a group of bandits and the nun who joins them after they caused her to loose her waitress job. ( )

In a war torn land, a nun joins a group of bandits. Short and interesting. ( )

3 and a half stars. novella. i was geared up for this one to be really good, and the Malayesque world had great potential, but really not much happened, i was sort of disappointed. i'll keep my eye on the author, though; maybe the next story in this setting will be the charm. ( )

I flew through this novella.

I loved everything about it: the setting, the characters, the language.

The stunningly beautiful Fung Cheung visits a coffee shop where he witnesses an altercation between a handsy customer and a waitress. He intervenes, defending the woman – wrecking the place and getting the waitress fired in the process. Cheung's ugly companion, Tet Sang, pays the waitress and the cafe owner for their troubles. Only he gets more than he bargained for when the waitress decides to join their gang. ( )