Guest Review: Empathizing with the Abuser: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
Apr. 6th, 2026 05:33 pmPlease welcome our anonymous reviewer!
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao is a debut Chinese-inspired fantasy centered on a poor village girl who rises from a concubine to the empress-in-waiting to an abusive prince heir. In a bid to save the kingdom from the tyranny of his reign, Wei decides to kill him in the only way she can, by writing a magic poem. Only deathly poems have to be love poetry, and only by knowing him well enough to love him can she kill him.
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