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The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart
The Bone Shard Daughter has been on my radar for a few years, but I never got around to picking it up because there was always something newer and shiner coming out. Focusing mainly on two points of view, the daughter of the emperor and a smuggler, the reader is transported to a world of moving islands where each citizen forcibly donates a shard of bone to the emperor to power his constructs. The constructs then slowly drain the life from the citizens.
I always enjoy new fantasy worlds, and this is no exception, so world building is solidly in the plus column. Unfortunately it reads almost a bit YA, with a surface level plot and relatively mediocre character building. As a reader nothing in the plot came as a surprise and I always think "would I really care if these characters died?" and generally the answer is no. Still it was at least entertaining and it fell solidly in the 3.5 star category.
I always enjoy new fantasy worlds, and this is no exception, so world building is solidly in the plus column. Unfortunately it reads almost a bit YA, with a surface level plot and relatively mediocre character building. As a reader nothing in the plot came as a surprise and I always think "would I really care if these characters died?" and generally the answer is no. Still it was at least entertaining and it fell solidly in the 3.5 star category.