Sometimes, the citizens don’t survive, because chiseling out a piece of a person’s skull while they’re alive has a pretty small margin for error. Lin’s father rules with an iron fist, aided by monstrous constructs that he created and powers with bone shards, literal shards from the skulls of the empire’s living citizens which are collected in a ceremony called the Tithing.
#The skulls music series
The series begins with Lin Sukai, daughter to the Emperor and heir apparent of the Sukai Dynasty, struggling to unlock the secrets of her own past, which she has forgotten due to a disease that robbed her of her memories. The Drowning Empire is set on a drifting island chain in the midst of a vast ocean world. We’ll be doing a spoiler-free review of The Bone Shard Emperor in the days leading up to its release on November 23, but in the mean time, here’s a bit of a beginner’s guide. The first novel in the series, The Bone Shard Daughter, was one of the breakout fantasy debuts of 2020, and with good reason: it’s a superb book, filled with excellent characters, fascinating magic, and gut-wrenching twists.
Next Tuesday marks the release of the second book in The Drowning Empire trilogy by Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor. 2021 has been a pretty epic year for fantasy books, and it’s about to get a whole lot better.
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