Now He’s Dead
“Hunting Monsters” &“Fighting Demons.”
By S L Huang

19 Mar, 2021
Doing the WFC's Homework
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You may have read (or heard about) S. L. Huang’s 2020 novel Burning Roses. You probably haven’t heard about Huang’s two stories in the same setting, 2014’s “Hunting Monsters” and 2015’s “Fighting Demons.” They created a world; Burning Roses is a sequel. I read the novel first and enjoyed it enough to seek out the stories (which I also enjoyed).
Both stories involve Xiao Hong, her mother Mei, and Mei’s lover Rosa. They are set in a secondary fantasy universe of the sort encountered in fairy tales, both European and Chinese.