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This was an utterly lovely read. Ursula fleshes out a world and it's conflicts across hundreds of years through six short tales, each of which felt like they could have been spun out into their own novels entirely.

The world building is excellent, but what really caught me was the attention to small details. The texture of a man's beard, the pattern on a ribbon, subtle shifts in speech. The way Ursula elaborates on small, important details make you feel embedded in the scene, like you yourself are experiencing Nakharat across a small, short selection of days.

The book doesn't overstay it's welcome. It's not terribly long, and while I hope one day I might return to Nakharat, I'm very pleased with the time I got to spend there.