![]() In Nephilanu Island, the third thread runs through Phalue’s story. Soon, rumors begin to speak of a smuggler with preternatural strength who saves children from the Tithing Festival with his peculiar animal companion, but notoriety is the last thing Jovis needs. One day, Jovis plucks a strange creature out of water, and the strange creature plucks him out of a grief so vast Jovis can't see its edges. ![]() Seven years have fallen away, and Jovis still sails the Endless Sea, chasing rumors of a dark boat with blue sails-the one that took his wife Emahla-while outrunning his creditors. The second thread is tied to Jovis whose missing wife’s face is suspended in his memory like an axis point around which all else turns. Determined, Lin sets out to pry at her father's secrets and unlock the mysteries of his creations one by one. Lin has forgotten how to work bone shard magic and she feels the absence of that knowledge within her like a hunger. Shutting himself away with Bayan-the Emperor’s protégé and Lin’s rival-to experiment and pry away at the bone shards inside of his constructs, the Emperor has no time for her brokenness. Lin is heir to the Phoenix Empire, but with memories of her past washed away by the Sickness, her father, the Emperor, refuses to acknowledge her as such. In that sense, the plot of The Bone Shard Daughter feels like a fist clenching a tangle of threads, and the most vivid of those threads begins with Lin. The questions will be answered eventually- most of them, anyway-but not before Andrea Stewart makes us at home in the minds of four different narrators. Those five words immediately swim through a thousand questions flooding the reader’s mind. ![]() Lin is heir to the Phoen “Father told me I’m broken,” we can all agree, is one of hell of an opening line. ![]() “Father told me I’m broken,” we can all agree, is one of hell of an opening line. 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.more 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. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. When her father refuses to recognise her The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order.
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