Descendant of the Crane: He Joan

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Most authors I’ve seen vary between being description heavy, dialogue heavy, or relying on plot to carry the story over the writing and voice.

If you want to understand a person, peer at his heart through the window of his prejudices and assumptions. Zwykle nie gwiazdkuję książek, których nie skończyłam, ale ta była tak nudna i przewidywalna, że po prostu DRAMAT. Growing up over here meant that I was surrounded by narratives about strong women, women who got stories that were MORE than just fighting to survive in a world of men.The not-quite-Imperial-China is beautifully done, and not the usual list of jade and flying monkey cliches. The entire first 57% of this book before the first plot twist happens was slow and utterly boring, and it was a chore to get through. There’s something about him that doesn’t quite synchronize with the rest of this world, like his character had been spliced in from a different story. My biggest quibble with Descendant of the Crane is that it was marketed as a Chinese Game of Thrones.

The book starts with Hesina determined to get justice for her father, whom she was believed to be poisoned. The story takes place in a Chinese inspired court where the king is killed and Princess Hesina becomes Queen.Mi primera experiencia con esta autora y puedo asegurar que es un maravilloso debut personal con la forma en la que se expresa y maneja el ambiente y transición de los giros argumentales de la historia. He taught her how to defend against the corruption and excesses of the old kings, before revolutionaries purged them and their seers and established the dynasty anew. Trigger and content warnings for death by poison, slavery, drowning, blood, cutting oneself, (institutionalized) oppression, parental neglect, and strangulation. Plus, I have an interview with some of the characters coming this Wednesday so keep an eye out for that!

This serves as one of the conflicts for Hesina, who has to somehow figure out how to change a population’s opinion that has been socialized within her kingdom for over 300 years. in this book, there is an entire population of people who have magical abilities and its never really explored.

Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered, she's thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. It's a reality many girls of color are forced to endure, and it was as refreshing as it was bittersweet to read. This gorgeous, Chinese-inspired fantasy is packed with dizzying twists, complex characters, and intricate politics. Both kingdoms are on the brink of civil war/foreign war, and about to implode from all the factions of unrest stirring up drama within the community. I stopped reading the Descendant of the Crane and already, I'm mixing it with multiple, similarly plotted fantasies.

He really pulls out all the stops with this book, and the sheer number of twists and turns have me screaming. Debo admitir que lo adquirí porque la edición de la portada está preciosa, no estaba tan segura de la historia pero le di una oportunidad, la calidad del libro es excelente y el encuadernado en punto, el trabajo de edición de las cubiertas es remarcable, una adición preciosa a mi librero. The imperial doctors say the king died a natural death, but Hesina has reason to believe he was murdered. I think Descendant of the Crane really portrayed this question well and showed a lot of different paths to achieving something (some of which I cannot spoil).Some were sidelined with little page time and then written with the assumption that the reader already knew them intimately, one significant example being the love interest. Literally the first thing she notices is how handsome Akira is, even though she's there in a position of power to strike a deal with him for finding her father’s killer.