The Bone Shard Emperor begins with our main character Lin adjusting to her new role as the Emperor of the Sukai Dynasty after overthrowing her father in a bloody coup. The twists in this series are so good that you really don’t want them spoiled for you.īut if you’ve already unlocked those secrets, already know some of the skeletons the Sukai Dynasty has in its closet, well…let’s get to the review! So if you haven’t read The Bone Shard Daughteryet, come back here after you do. I’ll be doing my best to keep this review as close to spoiler-free as possible, but due to the massive number of reveals and shifts that happened in the first novel of The Drowning Empire it’ll be impossible to discuss it without touching on some of those.

We’ll touch on all this and more below, but first, a SPOILER warning.

Bone shard magic, monstrous constructs, adorable animal companions and mysteries aplenty await.īut how does The Bone Shard Emperor stack up to the first book? Does it answer any of the myriad mysteries set forth by its predecessor? Most importantly, does Mephi get the page time we all know he deserves? (We’ll answer that last one right away: yes, yes he does.) The Bone Shard Emperor picks up right where the first book left off, following the adventures of Lin, Jovis, Phalue, Ranami, and Sand across the drifting islands of the Phoenix Empire. Today marks the release of the sequel to The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart: The Bone Shard Emperor.

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