Another character is the smuggler, Jovis. Those characters include Phalue, the daughter of a governor who finds herself in a relationship with a romance with a woman (Ranami) who is part of a group rebels hoping to take down the Empire. Stewart ambitiously provides four distinct first-person narrators in Bone Shard’s Daughter. Lin is just one of the primary characters and points of view. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright – and save her people. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets.

But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands. The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. The Bone Shard Daughter is an unmissable fantasy debut from a major new voice in epic fantasy - a stunning tale of magic, mystery, and revolution in which the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her power and her place on the throne. He pushes his daughter Lin to remember her past, but refuses to acknowledge her as his heir until she can prove her memory has returned and she is adept at the bone magic Adding more frustration to Lin’s situation is Bayan, a boy who the Emperor has adopted and named as his own son and is a potential heir, supplanting Lin’s claim to the throne. Her father, the reigning emperor, has sat upon the throne of the Phoenix Empire for decades thanks in part to the bone shard magic he has mastered. Lin, once heir to the Phoenix Empire, is having trouble remembering her early days.

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