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There are multiple narrators, mostly divided between east and west of a world split by differing faiths. I also had the added motivation of buddy reading this with Theresa from Theresa Smith Writes, otherwise this might’ve sat on my TBR shelf for a very long time! Thank you for keeping me accountable and pushing me to read this right away 😉 Luckily, it’s a pretty engrossing story to keep you returning to it time and time again. It’s a beautiful cover on a large, often unwieldy book which was, on occasion, hard to read because of its enormousness. I’ve decided that sometimes, that’s the best way to go with series’.īut here we have a stand alone release from Samantha Shannon and it is a whopper, coming in at well over 800p in large paperback form. One day I’ll catch up on it, maybe when it’s all been released. There’s probably more books released in that series, who knows. I bought the second book but I’m yet to read it. I remember my excitement around The Bone Season when it was released and how much I enjoyed it. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.Īcross the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction–but assassins are getting closer to her door.Įad Duryan is an outsider at court. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Blurb :įrom the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons–and the women who must lead the fight to save it.

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