song of silver flame like night by amélie wen zhao

This is fabulous start to a brand new fantasy series! Chinese folklore about demon creatures, the qi based magical system, the action packed, hearth throbbing, riveting chapters, execution of the big mystery and well crafted characterization make you addicted to this book! You don’t want to put it down but at the same time you curse yourself for finishing it faster because you don’t want it end so quickly! Now the battle for the Last Kingdom begins. And both hold the power to destroy the world. Both hold the power to liberate their land. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten. He’s never seen anything like it-but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime.īoth Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within-secrets they must hide from others, and secrets that they themselves have yet to discover. When Zen comes across Lan, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm. Now it must be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. Their magic was rumored to have been drawn from the demons they communed with. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. Until the night a boy appears at her teahouse and saves her life. The mark is mysterious-an untranslatable Hin character-and no one but Lan can see it. Anything to understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic.

An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past-and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart.

Song of silver flame like night by amélie wen zhao