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The Bone Shard Daughter

Andrea Stewart

Book 1 in The Drowning Empire

Heat Level

🌶 none

Genre

Epic Fantasy
Secondary World Fantasy

About The Bone Shard Daughter

For readers who love intricate magic systems, morally compromised protagonists, and mysteries that unfurl slowly across multiple perspectives. In a crumbling empire where the Emperor harvests bone shards from his citizens to animate magical constructs, Lin — the Emperor's amnesiac daughter — races to master her father's forbidden craft before he discards her. Meanwhile rebels and spies across the sinking islands push toward revolution. Andrea Stewart builds a vividly original world with a magic system unlike anything else in contemporary fantasy, and a political structure whose horror deepens with every chapter.

Tropes & Themes

Epic Fantasy
Secondary World Fantasy

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