The Emperor has skill and power at making and deploying constructs, which are defined across the book largely by demonstration rather than description. We begin with Lin, the Emperor’s daughter, who is troubled by her selfish, tyrannical father and his obsession with her recovering memories of her youth. Using uncomplicated prose, ideas both innovative and usefully recycled, high-quality worldbuilding, and carefully tuned enigma, newcomer Andrea Stewart has delivered a strong and intriguing start, both to her career and to this series. It’s full of reflective themes and characters, ways in which elements of the novel mirror each other, or gesture to each other. The Bone Shard Daughter is a surprisingly complex book, even for the first installment in an epic fantasy series.
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