
Into the Riverlands
- 63
- Pages
- about 1 h
- Reading time
- Ignyte Award for Best Novella
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About the book
Into the Riverlands is a 2022 fantasy novella by Nghi Vo. It is the third published entry in the Singing Hills Cycle. Each novella can serve as an entry point to the series or as a standalone tale.
Reading order · The Singing Hills Cycle
Full order & progress →- The Empress of Salt and FortuneStart here
8.08.0 / 10 - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
8.28.2 / 10 - Into the RiverlandsThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Mammoths at the Gates
–Not ranked yet - The Brides of High HillThe Brides of High Hill–Not ranked yet
- A Mouthful of Dust
8.08.0 / 10 - A Long and Speaking Silence
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 131 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 131 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Rating: 4.5 A more action-forward novella in this series, Into the Riverlands still centers stories, this time reflecting on how a story and its subject can become legend and how the legend told around the fire is often not the same as the original story or its subject anymore.”
“3.75/5 These keep getting a little better with each volume. Following the same Cleric/Historian Chih, this story follows Chih and their companion, the bird named “Almost Brilliant” as they journey into the Riverlands to collect it's stories. It's a place of bandits and brigands where…”
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It has 63 pages — shorter than 99% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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