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iamajellydoughnut 's review for:
The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart
Not a review, just my notes.
Maybe I'll read the sequel, maybe I won't. Main problem is that it felt like fantasy lite; the world was half-baked and half-populated, the scope seems miniscule. I didn't get a sense of any sort of substantial culture or society beyond the main characters who skimmed through the setting with single-minded purpose. I also don't know how I feel about the vague pan-Asian setting... Mephi is the magical animal trope or maybe I'm just jaded. I did like some of the twists: Lin being a construct meant to fulfill the Emperor's wife's role; Bayan being sort of the same; Sand being Nisong, the Emperor's wife.
Maybe I'll read the sequel, maybe I won't. Main problem is that it felt like fantasy lite; the world was half-baked and half-populated, the scope seems miniscule. I didn't get a sense of any sort of substantial culture or society beyond the main characters who skimmed through the setting with single-minded purpose. I also don't know how I feel about the vague pan-Asian setting... Mephi is the magical animal trope or maybe I'm just jaded. I did like some of the twists: Lin being a construct meant to fulfill the Emperor's wife's role; Bayan being sort of the same; Sand being Nisong, the Emperor's wife.