The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One

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Lin is able to steal some simple books from the library to teach her the basics of building constructs. If bone shards stop working when the person who provided them dies, then there should be frequent construct maintenance all over the islands - especially after the sinking of Deerhead island, but it doesn’t seem to be happening as nobody mentions it, really. This conflict of Phalue being the governor’s daughter versus Ranami who grew up on the streets, backdropped by a sweet, loving (sapphic! They succeed in their efforts to seize the ship and map the way out, and at the close of the novel, Sand exclaims that she will sail away with them and make them into an army. The bone shards are used to power these, sometimes haphazardly composed, constructs that are made to function for certain things like guard animals, spies, etc.

Try taking a read at the first chapter of the free excerpt provided; to me, it was like seeing the characters move and speak right in front of my eyes. The book is written from 5 or 6 perspectives, which initially made it difficult to settle into the flow of the story. Adam Weller, writing for Fantasy Book Review, gave the book a score of 9/10, concluded that " The Bone Shard Daughter is full of surprises. They changed what I thought was going to be a cliched development into a much more intriguing possibilities. There is no shortage of things to be impressed by here, but the book’s main strength to me lies in the voices the author gives her characters.When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.

The Drowning Empire is an apt series name, and I do believe we’ll learn more about this phenomenon and the Alanga in the sequels. MY GOD THE MAGIC SYSTEM IS SO FREAKIN’ UNIQUE (AND A BIT CREEPY AND INHUMANE— but hey, thats just my opinion).Lin is the Emperor’s daughter, but a mysterious illness has stolen her childhood memories and her status as heir to the empire.

No, what you actually get is a clever epic fantasy that is at least trying to be adult-ish, a promising debut that should not certainly go unnoticed. The story builds in layers and whilst foreshadowing allows you to guess at some aspects of the plot there are still plenty of twists and surprises to engage and hold your attention.F. Kuang in 2018, The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan in 2019; other than The Poppy War, all of these books are published by Orbit.

And the Emperor just needed to use a bit of logic to win the fateful confrontation — all he needed to do was to seriously - major spoiler! A triumph of fantasy and science fiction populated with memorable characters and bone-chilling secrets that keep you turning the pages.Stewart etches this story into your heart, filling it with everything I love about fantasy: a well-realized world, dark magic that challenges your presumptions, and deep questions about identity. Far from Fantasy clichés, the author succeeded in creating a very original universe and use of magic. The openly and transparently gay element is handled with welcome subtlety; some characters are gay; many of the soldiers are women, though, crucially, this is never offered as an overriding issue. The problem is that the people are not happy to be docile and subdued anymore and the empire is rotting from the inside because of greed. The pacing was slow at first and then it gets faster later in the book, the last 25% were crazy awesome with all the plot twists and reveals and everything fell into place which made them my favorite part and which increased my rating of this story to above 4 stars!