A book that keeps you intrigued all the way through to the very end and then some. I had heard a lot of positive things when coming into this book andA book that keeps you intrigued all the way through to the very end and then some. I had heard a lot of positive things when coming into this book and let me tell you they are all correct. This book offers some great world building in the limited amount of pages it provides the reader and also provides us with a great characters and specifically great interactions between characters, two specific ones throughout the story.
A story about a girl that has a bewitching artform that is needed to help the Imperial cause. An Emperor on the brink of disappearing and needing to be saved by such blasphemous ways. And a story with how the two intertwine.
Overall if anyone is wondering weather or not to delve some time into this book, I believe you should as you get a nice story and a nice setting, and some great interactions along with a nice theme of Asian cultures mixed with empires and you perhaps get an easter-egg from the outer Cosmere, in the postscript, by a certain fool with an H. ...more
Much better than the second installment in my mind. New and exciting characters and plots were both revealed throughout the novel and a grand latter hMuch better than the second installment in my mind. New and exciting characters and plots were both revealed throughout the novel and a grand latter half with some superb twists....more