Last year, I acquired my first book with sprayed edges: A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang, a romantasy novel with a stunning gold-foiled cover and blue sprayed edges with stenciled artwork.

In A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang retells the legend from the legend’s point of view. Xishi’s life is changed forever when, as she washes silk in the river near her small town, Fanli arrives.