I am actually so sad to say that I didn’t enjoy this book at all. I was so excited to receive my preorder and I’ve been on a run trying to read every cdrama/kdrama inspired fantasy romance out there. Being that Ann Liang is one of my fav authors after reading If You Could See the Sun and I Hope this Doesn’t Find You, I was THRILLED to see that she made a Chinese folktale inspired one with romance elements. 

In A Song to Drown Rivers, I found little to no romantic elements. I guess I found some of it interesting but a lot of the sequences were glazed over and it felt so incredibly long and boring to read. I wish we got to see her training or a little more intense scenes of her identity being uncovered. I think there were many missed opportunities for this book to really shine through. 

I will be honest I glazed through the last 5 chapters because I just wanted to finish it and yes it was sad to see the end but I can’t say any of the characters really moved me.