It has everything you could want from a fantasy novel, although I am still confused about it being shelved as YA on Goodreads. This was exactly the kind of fun, thoughtful, epic SFF I had been hoping to get based on the buzz surrounding it. 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. In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. Long story short: This is a book everybody seems to love and I am part of everybody now. In the case of The Bone Shard Daughter, I believe the hype is honest and comes from readers’ true feelings rather than a well-oiled marketing machine, although the latter definitely helped. BUT if the hype begins slowly, building up more and more as more people read the book, then that’s probably because it’s a good book that appeals to a great many people.

If the hype starts well before publication date, it’s likely just good marketing and may lead to disappointment on my part when actually reading the book. Whenever a book is surrounded by lot of hype, I get suspicious but it also depends on what kind of hype we’re talking about.

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