The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, 1)

The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, 1)

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

The Bone Shard Daughter is an unmissable debut from a major new voice in epic fantasy — a stunning tale of magic, mystery, and revolution in which the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her power and her place on the throne.

A TikTok sensation!
"One of the best debut fantasy novels of the year." — BuzzFeed News
"An amazing start to a new trilogy." — Culturess
"It grabs you by the heart and the throat from the first pages and doesn't let go." — Sarah J. Maas

The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands.

Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognize her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.

Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright - and save her people.
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
448
Preis
26.76 €

Beiträge

7
Alle
5

Unique magic system and fantastic characters

I’ve meant to read this book for a while now and am so glad I finally picked it up, I immediately wanted to read the second part. The world building is done nicely, as the MC learn more, so do we but not in a scholarly or boring way. And as the story continues, we see the characters grow and learn - and find out more about the mysteries. My favourite part was the magic system: everyone gives up a piece of bone shard and the connected life delivers energy for whatever monstrosity the emperor designed, so we have magic, suffering and obviously a rebellion. There is also some sort of “familiar”/ spirit animal that has to be further developed in the next book, pretty please? The plot had me guessing all the time (in a good way) and new elements kept changing my theories. I was definitely surprised by the ending as it felt a little too closed but then another POV opened the door to the next book wide open. In this case, I read the German translation and it was a smooth read without linguistic hitches (thumbs up to the translator), I’d guess the English original is also a smooth and easily understood style.

4.5

Unglaublich spannendes und einzigartiges Magiesystem und MultiPOV. Bin so gespannt wie es weitergeht. Und: Mephi 😍

2

somewhere between 1,5 and 2 stars. I liked the premise and the magic but the characters were flat / boring. Phalue / Ranami were so annoying. Too many POVs. Nothing ever went wrong and nothing ever really mattered. Lin did nothing the whole book. Jovis felt like he was cut from Disney's Tangled. At least he was funny sometimes, but man the luck these characters have to always be at the right place. they were also too much whining about, woe is me, and thinking way too much. also, because i listened to the audio book: they read soooo slow. from 50% onward i listened to it with 2x speed.

3

— 3.5 ⭑ “I would propose a thousand times if I knew you’d say yes in the end.” the ending shocked me, i can't wait to start the second book.

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