The newest book, entitled PURNAMA (referring to the full moon, which has a key role in the story), will be number 6 in the series, and will be coming out in the fall (of this year).
Jai Sen is someone Barb and Park have known for some time now– we first met him years ago at a con.
Recently he sent us his latest work that’s about to come out, Purnama, which will be #6 in the Malay Mysteries series, and he asked us to give him feedback about it.
But… we couldn’t, exactly. I mean, we both read it… although it was hard for Barb to start and then to finish because she knew once she’d read it it would be DONE and she had no idea when she’d get more.
And then after she DID finish reading Purnama, she couldn’t start writing down thoughts about it because she was like “how do you critique something that’s perfect? 10/10? perfection? No notes? How do you give notes on that?”
So we did it chat style. Like this:
BARB: Let’s talk about Jai’s new book. It is, of course, astounding.
The quality of his work is consistently great. I’m always eager to read anything he writes. I think his masterpiece is The Golden Vine, which I hope that he reprints someday soon, as I’d love to have a digital copy of it.
But his Malay mysteries are so on my wavelength.
He effortlessly combines folk horror, pan-Asian horror, world mythology, and history.
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