Loved itKen Liu gives so much time for his plots to develop, which is incredibly satisfying. It's a very, very intense series both politically and in its combat.
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Veiled Throne (2021)
Others: Mostly positive With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR). Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable? In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pékyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power? Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age. Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.
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- 9781784973315
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- 912 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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Loved itAnd I do love the Veil Throne, but like the speaking bones is where the payoff is because it's the end.
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MixedI loved so much about this book just the World building the characters the perfect writing that kenou is able to pull off in this book from a writing technical perspective the one thing that held this book back from it being one of the alltime like top of the top of the top was there was a large amount of this book not 100 Pages or so but more than that involved these characters that you don't feel like have a central point to the story involved
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Loved itthis book did start out a little bit slow but as it went i got more and more back into the story and i really did fall in love with it there's an element to this third book that i did not expect to be in there it was so fun