Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao
4.5 Stars
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins for the advance reader copy of this book for an honest review.
Lan spends her night as a song girl in Haak'gong a city transformed by conquerors who invaded her kingdom, killed her mother and outlawed her people's magic. She is searching for anything she can find of the past trying to understand the mark burned into her arm by her mother, her last act before she died.
The mark is mysterious and untranslatable and no one else but Lan can see it. That is until a boy appears at the teahouse and saves her life one night.
Zen is a practitioner of the Last Kingdom who's magic was rumoured to be drawn from demons they communed with.
Zen can see Lan's mark and he recognises that she is a practioner with a powerful hidden ability. The mark isn't anything like he has ever seen but he knows deep in the pine forests that there is a school of practitioning masters who are planning to overthrow the Elantian regime who may have some answers.
Working together both of them have secrets that they hide and both hold great power. Fate has connected them but their destiny remains unwritten.
A fantastic start to a new fantasy series steeped in Chinese folklore. With well crafted characters and well written plot lines full of adventure and magic.
The story was fascinating and addictive until the very end. Lan and Zen are both likeable yet flawed characters both with complex backgrounds.
The aspects of Chinese mythology were woven well within the story and gave great insight into the cultures folklore.
A fantasy novel I would highly recommend reading full of many twists and turns that were not obvious and well crafted!
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