A review by undermeyou
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

5.0

This was a really fun audiobook. The story was sweet and faster paced than my usual reads but still an adequately weird-fantasy. I don’t know that I would have enjoyed this much as a physical/digital read. There is A LOT of singing, and that is always one of my least favorite things in books(sometimes even when it is a song that I know the melody of it can still be off-putting to me), because it is almost always a made up song, and I am simply not a musician and hear no song in my head by reading some rhyming words. Like a lot of Tor’s shorter length releases, this felt a bit like too much got cut, so I’d love to be immersed entirely in this world in a full-length, or at least a longer length novella, but that is because the world was so strange and exciting. Thank you to Tor & NetGalley for the complimentary audiobook