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It's about a girl who is the apprentice of a monk(?) in magical-China. It's small-scale fantasy, focused around one small town and temple. The author has a bibliography in the back that seems to be references for all the magic/religion stuff, so it looks and feels like a fair amount of effort went into the worldbuilding. Plotwise, it's a pretty straightfoward coming of age story. The characters are all well developed, and the prose is good.
So yeah - really solid book. It just didn't wow me. I