The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart – Book Review (Archived)

Reposted from The Fantasy Hive for Archival PurposesPublished by: Orbit.Genre: High Fantasy.Series: The Drowning Empire (#1)Format: Audiobook.Run Time: 13 hrs and 44 mins.Purchased Copy via Audible.An authorial debut can go three ways—it might discourage you from ever again looking at the work of one author or another, it might offer a pleasant but forgettable distraction, or it will leave such a favourable impression, you’ll be desperate to see what the author does next.Would you care to wager which one this is?Lin Sukai is the daughter of the Emperor, but hers is not a happy life. Her childhood has been taken away by a terrible disease; her mother, too, is dead, her every portrait burned. Her father, ailing and of an advanced age, is far removed from the everyday reality of his Empire. The two of them, along with Lin’s adopted brother Bayan, live behind the high walls of the Imperial palace. Though she is of his blood, Lin has been refused the knowledge behind the intricate Bone Shar...