![]() ![]() ![]() The titles of the books both refer to the same person: Lin Sukai, who begins the story as the twenty-three-year-old amnesiac heir to her father, the Emperor, whose bone shard magic she is desperate to learn, just as she desperately yearns for her father’s approval and affection by regaining her memories from before she turned eighteen. The Bone Shard Emperor, in particular, deepens the characters and the backstory of the Phoenix Empire, improving on the occasional pacing issues displayed in the first book, which was Stewart’s first published novel. ![]() Andrea Stewart’s The Bone Shard Daughter (2020) and The Bone Shard Emperor (2021) have proven to be engaging and interesting epic fantasies that take unusual tacks in their narrative and setting and, by and large, repay the reader’s investment. ![]()
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