The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One

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The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One

The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One

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One foolish choice is like a rat you let go. It will spawn more consequences than you first thought possible.” Watching my father and reading and listening to you … if there’s one thing it’s all taught me it’s that if I try too hard to hold on to power at the expense of everything else, in the end that’s all I’ll have: power.” Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing!

Auch Phalue und Ranami haben es nach dem Machtwechsel nicht leicht. Phalue ist schon selbstbewusster als Lin und ist dem Volk näher, aber die Splitterlosen hatten nie gewollt, dass sie den Posten ihres Vaters übernimmt, also muss sie sich gegen die Erpressungen behaupten. Ranami hingegen muss ihre Vertrauensprobleme mit ihrer neuen Stellung als Frau der Inselgouverneurin unter einen Hut bringen, wenn sie Phalue helfen und beschützen möchte. However, I think some readers will be put off by the slower pacing of this book. I won’t deny that I really felt it and the way the plot inched along, particularly in the beginning. For me, though, my investment in the characters, combined with Andrea’s easy writing, made it go by smoothly. It was unputdownable: I ached to know more about each intriguing whisper of a plot twist, and it simultaneously felt like a well-loved quilt being patched together and also a ball of yarn slowly unfurling to create a beautiful shape.The pacing was middle, and it goes faster toward the ending. I honestly thought it would take me a long time to finish the book, but I did so in three days which is not bad at all. The chapters were also kind of short which is my favorite kind of chapters. The Bone Shard Emperor is a story set in a world which revels in the macabre, where a fight for survival and a hunt to uncover the truths of the past are done in hopes of building a better future. Stewart elevates her characters and world to new heights and leaves her readers with a heartstopping climax filled with war and chaos. The vibes and the atmosphere /is/ different from the first book,, a lot of the mystery turned into suspense for the reveals that you already know and socio-political scheming. So it might have been slightly disappointing in that aspect but really this just jumped from one type of book that I love to another. I do think the writing style and intrigue died down somewhere in the middle (relative to the first book) which was a little disappointing to me. Especially since I am already considering the first book as one of my faves of the whole year with the mystery and intrigued it was able to uphold.

This book is told in multiple points of views—Lin and Jovis in first person, and the others in third. I know this may sound intimidating to some, especially the switch in first and third person, but it was done seamlessly, and I loved how each perspective slowly wove together in a grand tapestry. Nisong does not give up, even when she should, she will not. And that's frustrating because she's kind of the villain and I want everyone to be happy, but she keeps ruining it. As a note though, this book is being comp’d to The Poppy War/for fans of The Poppy War and beyond them both being under the umbrella of Asian fantasy and by Chinese authors (or Chinese-Scottish-American, in the case of Stewart), I just want to put out there that if you are reading The Bone Shard Daughter because of this . . . don’t necessarily come into this expecting the same kind of story? The Poppy War (if you haven’t read it . . . well, read it) is grimdark military fantasy; The Bone Shard Daughter isn’t. The Bone Shard Daughter has a very different narrative. Similarly, The worldbuilding of the two are different, taking influences from different parts of East Asian culture. (On that note, The Poppy War has way more of a historical influence too.) Both are awesome though, and worth a read.

It does seem like I only have negatives, right? I don't though, or I wouldn't have given it a positive rating. The world and magic system(s) still shows potential even if I wish they were explored further. The writing is compelling : I've read books I literally couldn't finish because the pacing was slow, and it wasn't the case at all here. It was more like this : I kept reading, while the thought "why isn't the plot moving forward" came into my mind. Finally, the last part of the book was WAY more engaging and I enjoyed it a lot. Both the ideas of empire and agency culminate in the true thematic heart of The Bone Shard Daughter: personal identity. The message I took away from the novel was that the present you and your choices now define you more than who you were or who people want you to be. Each POV character has a turning point when they realize that what they do in the moment now matters more than who they were in the past. In doing so, each of the characters reshapes their personal narrative to construct a new identity for themselves that empowers them to achieve their goals. Although The Bone Shard Daughter focuses on a personal level of identity, I feel that Stewart’s masterful handling of the theme will ripple out in the next books to destabilize the entire Drowning Empire by questioning other forms of identity. I loved my father, but he didn’t love me. In the end, I wanted to live more than I wanted him to love me. It seems like nobody was aware of Nisong and her slow, approaching army and then there was just a scene where Lin mentions an impostor laying claim on her throne. It just seemed a very sudden shift from Lin going on diplomatic trips and making trading contracts to war and needing allies. It was written like she was aware of the threat and dismissed it because it was more important to do something else and it just seemed odd considering the extent of devastation Nisong was leaving behind. It was especially grating to see Lin showing her diplomatic skills and making deal...only to break it in next chapter. I read it and thought:"But, wait, that will not work because of you made a promise?" We got the huge battle at the end, so I am not that mad about it.



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